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• In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil

• A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Ethics, Action, Good

• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Ethics, Good

• What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about “right” and “wrong,” or “good” and “evil,” and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil

• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Human Rights, Action, Feeling

• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Tags in Ethics, Hypocrisy

• Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior,

  Martha Nussbaum

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Ethics, Ignorance

• Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

  Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

  Tags in Ethics, Equality, Injustice

• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Ethics, Inclusion, Interdependence, Good

• To declare that the end justifies the means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring terrible retribution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Tags in Ethics, Government, Injustice

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Judgment

• We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

  Unknown

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Hierocles, Evil

• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it — a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Ethics, Civilization

• The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Humanity, Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Human Rights

• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil, Language

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

  Paul Ricoeur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Ethics, Duty, Law, Creed, Credo

• I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever — on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country — vote Republican.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Topics in Christmas, Politics

  Tags in Ethics, Liberals

• You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn’t have had the ten commandments. We’d have had the ten suggestions.

  Christopher Bigsby

  Tags in Ethics, Liberals

• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics

• Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Expectations, Love, Success

  Tags in Ethics, Generosity, Good