"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."

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"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."

bell hooks, American Critic

Ethics, Joy, Relationship, Morality

"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Ethics, Patriotism, War, Humanity

"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Ethics, Honesty, Integrity, Trust, Decision

"I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.' 'But the Magdalen?' 'Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Ethics, Morality, Religion, Judgment, Truth

"Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of no value. Do they tell you that the purpose of morality is to curb man's instinct of self-preservation? It is for the purpose of self-preservation that man needs a code of morality. The only man who desires to be moral is the man who desires to live."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Ethics, Morality, Self-Preservation, Life, Values

"It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Ethics, Morality, Wealth, Conscience, Humanity

"The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Ethics, Morality, Philosophy, Conscience

"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Ethics, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Ethics, Pity, Justice, Guilt, Innocence

"If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Ethics, Morality, Realism, Choice, Truth

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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

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"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."

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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."

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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

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"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."

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"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."

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"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."

"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

"It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings."

"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."

"When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer."

"If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical."

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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries."

"You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

"Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort."

"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."

"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins."

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."