Communication Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite of this…

— Gary Hopkins

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

“The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves…

— Oscar Wilde