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Morality Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,…
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
- Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring…
- Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith…
- Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting,…
- Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to…
More Morality Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton