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Moral Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily…
- We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a…
- It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than…
- The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect…
- Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by…
- It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions…
- Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac