Ethics Quotes

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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will… — Rudyard Kipling
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes… — Robert D. Hare
Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we… — Natalie Goldberg
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of… — Matthieu Ricard
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. — Carl Jung
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. — Heraclitus
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation… — Robert M. Pirsig
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an… — Robert M. Pirsig
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to… — Andrew Jackson
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this… — Simone Weil
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception… — Peter Kropotkin
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all… — Rutherford B. Hayes
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.… — Richard Dawkins
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. — Immanuel Kant
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers… — Joan D. Chittister
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that… — Noam Chomsky

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