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| When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. (Abraham Lincoln) | [▲] | [▼] |
| True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. (Albert Schweitzer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication. (Algernon Black) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. (Barry Lopez) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. (Buddha) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Conventionality is not morality. (Charlotte Bronte) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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 and Malcolm Bradbury) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. (Cicero) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself. (Edward Ericson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markham) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |