Moral Philosophy Quotes

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." "The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life." "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." "The ends justify the means" "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others" "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor" "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom." "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same" "Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek." "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world." "The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values." "The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life" "Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity"