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"Courage without conscience is a wild beast"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible"
William James, Philosopher
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices"
Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued"
Socrates, Philosopher
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good"
Socrates, Philosopher
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Lord Acton, Historian
"If man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when he is trodden on"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"It's a terrible thing, wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy"
John Dyer, Artist
"Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known?"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"
John D. Rockefeller, Businessman
"Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations"
Swami Sivananda, Philosopher
"If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character"
Swami Sivananda, Philosopher
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us"
John Locke, Philosopher
"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it"
John Locke, Philosopher
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
"The great thieves lead away the little thief"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt"
Plautus, Playwright
"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"The power to do good is also the power to do harm"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures, are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these"
William Blackstone, Judge
"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
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