"We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.."

Ethics, Virtue, Pleasure, Morality

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"We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

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"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

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"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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