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• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Tags in Ethics

• Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

  Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflict, Ethics, Values, Argument, Communication

• The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

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• Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Ethics, Wind

• Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life.

  William Channing Gannett

  Topics in Life, Religion

  Tags in Ethics

• Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.

  Albert Schweitzer

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• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

  Denis Diderot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Duty

• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence.

  Carl Sandburg

  Tags in Ethics

• Altruism, compassion, empathy, love, conscience, the sense of justice — all of these things, the things that hold society together, the things that allow our species to think so highly of itself, can now confidently be said to have a firm genetic basis. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, although these things are in some ways blessings for humanity as a whole, they didn’t evolve for the “good of the species” and aren’t reliably employed to that end. Quite the contrary: it is now clearer than ever (and precisely why) the moral sentiments are used with brutal flexibility, switched on and off in keeping with self interest; and how naturally oblivious we often are to this switching. In the new view, human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse.

  Robert Wright

  Tags in Ethics

• Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

  Howard Zinn

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• The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Tags in Ethics

• Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of this world is an idea that can’t persist any longer. If it does, then we won’t.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Tags in Ethics

• Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Conscience

• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

  Paul Ricoeur

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  Tags in Ethics, Duty

• There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Topics in Commitment, Democracy

  Tags in Ethics, Earth, Community

• It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.

  Unknown

  Topics in Experience

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• Good people don’t need laws to tell them to act responsibly and bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Ethics

• To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil

• We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good

• Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Facts, Conscience