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The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey1911–1978Remarks at the dedication of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, November 1, 1977, Congressional Record, November 4, 1977, vol 123, p. 37287.
- Government
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880To Guy de Maupassant (February 16, 1880)
- Beauty
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter XV, § 23
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 10 (11 March 1711)
- Humor
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one’s conscience.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 181
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, xxi, 9
To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi…
P. G. Wodehouse1881–1975The Girl in Blue (1970)
- Comedy
To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.
Charles Baudelaire1821–1867Le Spleen de Paris (1862), XXVIII: “La Fausse Monnaie”
- Good & Evil
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Under Western Eyes (1911), Pt. I, ch. 2
Without “ethical culture,” there is no salvation for humanity.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Need for Ethical Culture”, message on the 75th anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society (5 January 1951)
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Need for Ethical Culture”, message on the 75th anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society (5 January 1951)
- Education
It is not possible to enter into the nature of the Good by standing aloof from it — by merely speculating upon it.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), p.34
- Good & Evil
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
Jonas Salk1914–1995Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
- Good & Evil
What I find terrifying is the detachment and equanimity with which we view and discuss an unbearable tragedy.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928“On Resistance”, The New York Review of Books, December 7, 1967.
All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality
- Love