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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world — that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me — is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life, Service

  Tags in Good, Ethics, Credo, Creed, Possible

• When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, “Have faith and take your troubles to God.” Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help — only yourself.

  Unknown

  Topics in Expectations, Religion, Service

  Tags in Ethics, Responsibility

• We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

  Michael Lerner

  Topics in Politics, Spirituality

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Meaning

• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Ethics, Arrogance, Strength, Choice, Choosing

• All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you’ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you’re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

  Barbara Jordan

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Ethics

• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Ethics

• I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Humanity, Suffering

  Tags in Ethics, Hope, Despair

• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Ideals, Life, Suffering

  Tags in Ethics, Values, Meaning

• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha Nussbaum

  Topics in Humanity, Risk, Trust

  Tags in Ethics, Doubt/Uncertainty

• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Topics in Advice, Truth

  Tags in Ethics

• [T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.

  William James

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Thinking

• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life

  Edwin Markham

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Ethics

• Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people’s choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they’ve received and what problems they are facing.

  Michael Lerner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Understanding, Judgment, Choice, Choosing

• Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Hypocrisy, Virtue

• The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour — property, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Beauty, Ideals, Success, Truth, Vision

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Greed

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

  Omar Nelson Bradley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, War, School, Science

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an “ethic.”

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Ethics

• The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

  Isocrates

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Ethics, Worship, Good

• The Roots of Violence:
  Wealth without work,
  Pleasure without conscience,
  Knowledge without character,
  Commerce without morality,
  Science without humanity,
  Worship without sacrifice,
  Politics without principles.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Politics, Religion, Sacrifice, Work

  Tags in Nonviolence, Worship, Ethics, Sharing, Character, School, Violence, Virtue, Conscience, Science

• Because it’s so easy to copy anything, a lot of people have convinced themselves that they shouldn’t have to pay for it. Well, the reason you get paid is because the people who sit all day long at their desks creating books and songs and software have mortgages. And if you’re only going to sell one copy of everything and then the world is going to make a gazillion pirated copies off of it, it’s going to be really hard to pay your mortgage.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Ethics, Writers And Writing, Creativity