But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
Abraham LincolnThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama XIVTags: life inspirational kindness morality simple ethics philosophy brain temple
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireTags: humor morality ethics murder nationalism war mankind law killing irony double-standards nations governments
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?
PlatoYou know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is.
EpictetusTags: ethics integrity path stoicism
Tags: compassion ethics capitalism greed
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Stanley MilgramTags: society ethics state responsibility government authority obedience
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. BradleyTags: science humanity ethics peace war technology humanism imperialism nuclear-weapons
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
AristotleWe have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Bertrand RussellTags: ethics
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