Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"In the midst of vice, we are in virtue, and vice versa"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods"

Virgil, Writer

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"What do you despise? By this are you truly known?"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"The great thieves lead away the little thief"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"Government is essentially immoral"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

Robert Baden-Powell

"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface, everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently until the entire fabric is doomed"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"

Harper Lee, Novelist

Harper Lee

"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis"

Karl Kraus, Writer

Karl Kraus

"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

Xun Kuang

"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

Joseph Rotblat

"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time becomes good at another time to somebody else"

Mencius, Philosopher

Mencius

"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

Andrew Carnegie

"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

Doug Larson

"Pity is treason"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

Maximilien Robespierre

"Evil events from evil causes spring"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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