Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another"

William Greider, Author

"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos"

Herbert Read, Poet

"Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"Only among people who think no evil can evil monstrously flourish"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up"

Julian Assange, Activist

"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals"

Herbert Read, Poet

"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence"

Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher

"No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"

Joel Coen, Director

"For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"But we're still in somewhat a puritanical society in a lot of ways"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances"

Iris Chang, Historian

"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the South. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"What we do and say and show really matters"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Well, there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense"

Boy George, Musician

"I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"I have no bad conscience"

Alois Brunner, Criminal

"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her"

Barbara Cartland, Novelist

"My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"It's nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them"

David Borenstein, Writer

"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety"

Alain de Botton, Writer

"To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand"

Albert Maltz, Author

"Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life"

Alan Rudolph, Director

"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense"

Ron Paul, Politician

"It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now"

Alex Cox, Director

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