Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children"

Barney Frank, Politician

"We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal, really"

Bo Derek, Actress

"Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored"

Alfred Whitney Griswold, Educator

"Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

Ben Nicholson

"I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so"

Andrea Mackris, Producer

"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous, and menacing"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values"

Allen Tate, Poet

"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"Your women of honor, as you call 'em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

William Wycherley

"Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time"

Meryl Streep, Actress

Meryl Streep

"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships, and good deeds result in blessings"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"You cannot do only one thing"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes"

Judi Dench, Actress

Judi Dench

"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

Horst Koehler

"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"Thus, self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

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