morality Quotes

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.