471 quotes found
“Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.”
“Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.”
“Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal harmonious cooperation, true history, would at last begin. For if this was not...”
“I dont want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that Im ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.”
“Ethics is a dream.”
“To be incapable of taking ones enemies, ones accidents, even ones misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to...”
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other efficient causes, necessarily subject to the laws of causality, while in pr...”
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data of the world of sense or from the whole compass of the theoretical us...”
“Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.”
“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is no...”
“Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.”
“If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!”
“I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.”
“We need to learn from one another. Of one thing I am certain: No single people, tradition, religion, governmental form, ethical program, moral code, or civilization has had sufficient wisdom and go...”
“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
“Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbo...”
“The more I allow myself to face that truth about my participation in a violent world, the more my faith and my intellect call me to humility and compassion rather than to doctrinaire ethics. I cann...”
“Our fight was not for ownership of a fertile piece of land. It was about defending the sanctity of ethics and fairness and dignity --- about defending humanity. Those are the values worth fighting ...”
“A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.”
