Quotes about Ethics
As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compare to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Behind the cross stands the devil.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Virtue is as little taught as is genius; indeed, the concept is just as unfruitful for it as it is for art, and in the case of both can be used only as an instrument. We should therefore be just as foolish to expect that our moral systems and ethics would create virtuous, noble, and holy men, as that our aesthetics would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
— Arthur Schopenhauer