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Ethical Development Library:  Quotations

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." ~ Cicero

"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development." ~ Felix Adler

"We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice." ~ Hierocles

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." ~ Pearl S. Buck

"Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~ Mark Twain

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." ~ Omar Bradley

"It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late." ~ Pearl S. Buck

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." ~ Plato

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." ~ Thomas Paine

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." ~ William J. H. Boetcker

"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers." ~ William Lloyd Garrison

"The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason." ~ T.S. Eliot, in Murder in the Cathedral

"We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly." ~ Aristotle

"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics." ~ Albert Einstein

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