27 quotes
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerable”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
“An unjust law is no law at all”
— Augustine of Hippo
“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 ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children through families.”
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
— Confucius
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
“The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws but the family remains the moral compass.”
— Tacitus
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
“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
“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”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children through families.”
“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”
“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
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”
— Plato
“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
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