Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"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

Socrates

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"If man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when he is trodden on"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"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

John Stuart Mill

"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

John Stuart Mill

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

Alfred A. Montapert

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"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

Leo Tolstoy

"It's a terrible thing, wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy"

John Dyer, Artist

John Dyer

"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

Jeremy Bentham

"Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

Eli Khamarov

"Learn what is true in order to do what is right"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"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

Thomas Huxley

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

Swami Sivananda

"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

P. J. O'Rourke

"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"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

William Blackstone

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The power to do good is also the power to do harm"

Milton Friedman, Economist

Milton Friedman

"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your house look any better"

Lou Holtz, Coach

Lou Holtz

"He was as great as a man can be without morality"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"A satellite has no conscience"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example, and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

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