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Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Good & Evil
- Religion
Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 16:23 (KJV)In context
- Good & Evil
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 16:26 (KJV)In context
- Money
Get thee behind me, Satan
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 8:33 (KJV)In context
- Good & Evil
How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Speech delivered at the Yad Vashem Museum at Jerusalem, Israel—March 23, 2000
- God
- Good & Evil
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
- Abortion
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain
As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 79 (18 December 1750)
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785) (17 September 1773)
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), The Boarding HouseIn context
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
- Happiness
There is … only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Ch. II
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Translated by Lewis White Beck
- Nature
There are moments when I feel that the Shylocks, the Judases, and even the Devil, are broken spokes in the great wheel of good which shall in due time be made whole.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 21
- Good & Evil