Quotes on Ethics: Guiding Principles for Life | Moral Compass - Page 5

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
– Henry Louis Mencken

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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
– Anne Frank

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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
– Zig Ziglar

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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
– Henry Adams

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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
– Lincoln Steffens

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Everything of value is defenseless.
– Lucebert

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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
– David Hume

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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
– Benjamin Franklin

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
– Plato

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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
– Herbert Spencer

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
– Albert Schweitzer

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Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers.
– Samuel Butler

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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right.
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Good and evil are asymmetrical; there are more ways to harm people than to help them, and harmful acts can hurt them to a greater degree than virtuous acts can make them better off.
– Steven Pinker

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A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.
– Felix Adler

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Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
– Laura Schlessinger

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Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
– Christopher Hitchens

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