values Quotes

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.