27 quotes
“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
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
— Immanuel Kant
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children through families.”
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“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
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
“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
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”
— Plato
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children through families.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
— Confucius
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
— Jeremy Bentham
“Compassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in action”
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerable”
“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
“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
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