Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore, the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"We can overcome evil with greater good"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Consequently, it will often happen: there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"Communal well-being is central to human life"

Cat Stevens, Musician

Cat Stevens

"I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster, and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable"

Nikolai Gogol, Writer

Nikolai Gogol

"The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way"

Alan Bullock, Historian

"I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations"

Nicolas Malebranche, Philosopher

"Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"

Marilyn Manson, Musician

"We have broken the link between value and values"

Mark Carney, Economist

Mark Carney

"There are three things which we should never sacrifice: our honor, our conscience, and our duty"

Philip III, Royalty

Philip III

"The media must play an important role in informing and educating the public, but it must also be responsible and accountable"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

Dmitry Medvedev

"In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner"

Richard John Neuhaus, Writer

"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity"

Quintilian, Educator

"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one"

Pat Boone, Musician

"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man"

Eliza Cook, Poet

"The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong"

Antiphanes, Writer

Antiphanes

"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil"

Citium Zeno, Philosopher

"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"The propensity to do good things is a choice"

Shaun Cassidy, Musician

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

"It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

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