Quotes about morality
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Hesiod776–700 BCWorks and Days (c. 700 BC), Line 240He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Hesiod776–700 BCWorks and Days (c. 700 BC)
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
Augustine of Hippo354–430VIII, 7Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Augustine of Hippo354–430Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Enchiridion (c. 420 ), Ch. 27For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name “evil.”
Augustine of Hippo354–430The City of God, Book XI, ch. 9The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 52 (3 March 1919).- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935The Common Law (1881), Lecture II, p. 44
State interference is an evil, where it cannot be shown to be a good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935The Common Law (1881), pp. 88-96Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
