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| Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. (Felix Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (George Bernard Shaw) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. (H. L. Mencken) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. (Heinz Pagels) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Hierocles) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. (Jane Addams) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. (John Burroughs) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. (Marcus Aurelius) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Always do right-this will gratify some and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The government is merely a servant - merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. (Matthew Henry) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people. (Molleen Matsumura) | [▲] | [▼] |
| States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. (Noam Chomsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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 N. Bradley) | [▲] | [▼] |