“If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.”
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Ayn Rand
9 quotes“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Saint Augustine
8 quotes“If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.”
David Hume
7 quotes“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
Dante
6 quotes“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”
Thomas Paine
4 quotes“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right a...”
Einstein
4 quotes“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein”
Marcus Aurelius
4 quotes“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that d...”
Pope Benedict XVI
4 quotes“Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.”
Confucius
3 quotes“Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the she...”
Adam Smith
3 quotes“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Percy Shelley
3 quotes“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
Socrates
3 quotes“...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live h...”