Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

"It is important in this journey to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. Body shaming and hurtful tactics will never get the job done"

Zendaya, Actress

"Every moment is an opportunity to be virtuous"

Ryan Holiday, Author

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune"

William McFee, Writer

"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed"

George Chapman, Poet

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example, and respect for universal ethical principles"

Juan Antonio Samaranch, Celebrity

"There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism, but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it"

Harry Browne, Writer

"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others"

Henry Taylor, Dramatist

"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity"

Claud-Adrian Helvetius, Philosopher

"I do not like assassins or men of low character"

Gene Hackman, Actor

"In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action"

James Harrington, Philosopher

"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"It is not her body that he wants, but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself by people"

John Barth, Novelist

"Is now the time to legalize prostitution?"

Harry Anderson, Actor

"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune"

William McFee, Writer

"Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"The unconscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Evil changes everybody!"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

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