Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"One crime has to be concealed by another"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage"

Confucius, Philosopher

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"

Confucius, Philosopher

"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice"

Confucius, Philosopher

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world, By practicing reverence for life, we become good, deep, and alive"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics!"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"To seek the highest good is to live well"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"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

Maya Angelou

"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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