Character Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

— Ronald Reagan

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

— Paul Bloom

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to…

— Aristotle

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

— Paul Ricoeur

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in…

— Benjamin Franklin

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties…

— Isaac Barrow

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould