The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous HuxleyAbortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.
Pope FrancisI am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma GandhiI would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel JohnsonTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensI just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
Hunter S. ThompsonAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel KantWe all have done something unethical.
John C. MaxwellCharity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar WildeThe story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.
George LucasEthics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert SchweitzerIt’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.
Mark ZuckerbergDoctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon BonaparteSo long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert HubbardDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNo weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest HemingwayI think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt VonnegutThe humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.
David BowieRemember that before ‚Roe v. Wade‘ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.
Ruth Bader GinsburgHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur SchopenhauerMankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George OrwellThe strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise PascalSay what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. MenckenWhat we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar WildeWe’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy GrahamAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusI’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy CarterThere never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalI would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
Joan of ArcNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore RooseveltWe moralize among ruins.
Benjamin DisraeliConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George EliotDon’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
Jim MattisEach of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Pope FrancisWhat you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
ConfuciusTo prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
PlatoThe highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
PlatoThe desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery sin is the result of a collaboration.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAlways recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Immanuel KantThere is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin FranklinIf you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Jesus ChristIf a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar WildeIt’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen KingMorality is contraband in war.
Mahatma GandhiA man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus AureliusVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusCrime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann HesseThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesYou cannot mix sports with politics.
Jackie ChanMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWho shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander PopeSome like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul AusterI don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
Billy GrahamI can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
Karl LagerfeldThere is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
Audrey HepburnWell, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher Hitchens