27 quotes
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”
— Plato
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerable”
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
— Confucius
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children through families.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children through families.”
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“Compassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in action”
“An unjust law is no law at all”
— Augustine of Hippo
“The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws but the family remains the moral compass.”
— Tacitus
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
— Jeremy Bentham
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
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