morality Quotes

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.