MORALITY



“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

“Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone [1902-2002].

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Spencer Johnson

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” Albert Camus

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” Thomas Alva Edison

“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.” — “Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.” Albert Schweitzer [1952 Nobel Peace Prize]

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society.” Juanita Kidd Stout

“The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.” Dwight David Eisenhower

“I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.” Thomas Jefferson

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” Immanuel Kant

“Winning is nice if you don’t lose your integrity in the process.” Arnold Horshak

“Calamity is the test of integrity.” Samuel Richardson

“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.” Albert Schweitzer

“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.” Albert Schweitzer

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.” Albert Schweitzer

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” Potter Stewart

“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.” Albert Claude

“The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.” Michael D. Higgins

“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.” James MacGregor Burns

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