Character Quote by Charles Bridges

“The truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.”

— Sofia Samatar

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

— Aristotle

Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention…

— David Hume

“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward…

— Sir Francis Bacon

The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a…

— Helen Keller

Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large…

— William Damon

There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by…

— Roger Williams

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better…

— Aristotle

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is…

— Aristotle

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

— Richard Flanagan

“The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the…

— Erich Fromm