1,250 Quotes About Ethics

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Goodness is giving up power and acting upon the world negatively. The good are unimaginable.

Any form of power has the potential to corrupt its possessor. So, ultimately it all comes down to individual responsibility.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

You can either go home with enough money or enough excuses, but not both!

Humans who are in positions of power make the rules, and therefore their interests almost always come first—no matter what the cost to anymals and less powerful human beings.

As long as we have inequality we can never have peace.

All the forces of reason combined are unable to rescue the thoughtless person who is so enamored with their agenda that they themselves are perishing at the hands of that very agenda. And in order to insure that the principled nature of this nation is not doomed to perish alongside them, we must make certain that we are not that person.

People don't hate other people because they're different. They hate themselves because they're weak, and they take it out on those who are powerless.