Ethics Quotes

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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are… — Aristotle
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it… — Aristotle
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... — Immanuel Kant
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our… — George Will
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To… — Paulo Freire
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the… — Audre Lorde
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or… — Unknown Author
On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for… — David Suzuki
The roots of art and play lie very close together. — Angus Wilson
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery — Ben Harper
Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. — Samora Machel
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. — Sydney J. Harris
I've tried to live my life right, just like a story. — Unknown Author
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
I never practice; I always play. — Wanda Landowska
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import,… — Corita Kent
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank. — Tom Robbins
Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. — Starhawk

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