Ethics Quotes
1384 quotes by 892 authors
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If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.
— Unknown Author
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
— Edith Sitwell
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
— Pablo Casals
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
— Frederick William Faber
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If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
— Georges Courteline
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
— Oscar Wilde
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In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.
— Mary Renault
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
— Max Lerner
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
— William Golding
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
— Iris Murdoch
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
— J. G. Holland
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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
— Enoch Powell
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