Ethics Quote by John Berger Download Open image “In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.” — John Berger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Humility Justice Philosophy Righteous
Humility is similar to humanity with both being deepily connected with the behavioural kindness as the first priority on the ground of morality. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Righteousness is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is coupled with a deep commitment to become better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Copy Share Image
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
