
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality
Alighieri, Dante (Durante)Added: 2003-12-21

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it
Anouilh, JeanAdded: 2003-10-05

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
Antoninus, Marcus Aelius Aurelius Meditations, Bk. VII, No. 65
Added: 2004-09-29

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen
AristotleAdded: 2002-07-31

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right
Asimov, IsaacAdded: 2003-10-05

The crucial point is precisely there: in this total counter-meaning to Good and Evil in Western philosophy, the philosophy of Enlightenment. We naively believe that the progress of the Good, its rise in all domains (sciences, techniques, democracy, human rights) correspond to a defeat of Evil. Nobody seems to understand that Good and Evil rise simultaneously, and in the same movement. The triumph of the One does not produce the erasure of the Other.
Baudrillard, JeanAdded: 2004-02-17

There are different ways of assassinating a man - by pistol, sword, poison, or moral assassination. They are the same in their results except the last is more cruel.
Bonaparte, Napoleon Maxims (1804-1815)
Added: 2004-09-02

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
Burke, EdmundAdded: 2004-02-04

The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is for good men to do nothing.
Burke, EdmundAdded: 2004-02-04

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Carroll, LewisAdded: 2003-08-12

An evil at its birth, is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endurance.
Cicero, Marcus TulliusAdded: 2004-02-04

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves During an interview with CNN
Added: 2004-01-23

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
Darrow, Clarence SewardAdded: 2003-12-13

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Einstein, AlbertAdded: 2003-10-05

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Feiffer, JulesAdded: 2004-03-14

It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong
France, AnatoleAdded: 2003-10-05

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine
Freud, SigmundAdded: 2003-10-05

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil.
Fuller, Dr. ThomasAdded: 2004-05-02

Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasure; the limits of good and evil join.
Fuller, Dr. ThomasAdded: 2004-10-17

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
Ginder, Samuel PAdded: 2003-12-21

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty?
Goldsmith, OliverAdded: 2004-05-03
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