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| The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. (Origen) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. (Paul Ricoeur) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. (Pearl S. Buck) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plato) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. (Rabindranath Tagore) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. (Shirley Chisholm) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. (Theodore Parker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. (Thomas Erskine) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. (Thomas Paine) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Genuine politics - even politics worthy of the name - the only politics I am willing to devote myself to - is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. (Vaclav Havel) | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. (Victor Frankl) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. (W. H. Auden) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life. (William Channing Gannett) | [▲] | [▼] |
| That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. (William J. H. Boetcker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| [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) | [▲] | [▼] |