00524--ETHICS QUOTES

ETHICS QUOTES 

1. Even God cannot change the past.

--Aristotle

2. So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

--Aristotle

3. We make war that we may live in peace.

--Aristotle

4. I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

---Immanuel Kant

5. How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

--Herbert spencer

6. Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

--Herbert spencer

7. As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.

--Marcel Proust

8. Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

--John Ruskin

9. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

--Bertrand Russell

10. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

--Seneca

11. Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

--George Bernard Shaw

12. Pickering: Have you no morals, man?

Doolittle: Can’t afford them, Governor.

--George Bernard Shaw

13. Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

--Herbert Spencer

14. No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

--Herbert Spencer

15. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

--Alfred North Whitehead

16. We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

--Jane Austen

17. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

--Jeremy Bentham

18 All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.

--Jeremy Bentham

19 Food comes first, then morals.

--Bertolt Brecht

20. The end justifies the means.

--Hermann Busenbaum

21. We must have religion for religion’s sake, morality for morality’s sake, as with art for art’s sake...the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

-- Victor Cousin

22. The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

-- Charles Darwin

23. If art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

--George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

24 In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

--David Hume

24. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

--Immanuel Kant

25. Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s                            inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

26. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

--Martin Luther King

00274-- 10 BEST QUOTES BY LACAN

1. Since Freud, the centre of man is not where we thought it  was; one has to go on from there.

2. The unconscious is structured like a language.

3. Desire is always what is inscribed as a repercussion of the articulation of language at the level of the Other.

4. For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

5. The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

6. What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

7. What is realised in my history is neither the past definite as what was, since it is no more, nor even the perfect as what has been in what I am, but the future anterior as what I will have been, given what I am in the process of becoming.

8.  There is no such a thing as Woman.

9. Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

10. What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

00258--10 QUOTES BY AGATHA CHRISTIE

10 QUOTES BY AGATHA CHRISTIE

1. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”


2.  “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” 

3.  “They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.” 

4.  “An appreciative listener is always stimulating.” 

5.   “If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go” 

6.   “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.” 

7.   “Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.” 

8.  “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.” 

9.   “When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!” 

10.  “You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.”

 

00254--10 Best Quotes by Earnest Hemming Way

10 Best Quotes by Earnest Hemming Way

1.       The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

2.       A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

3.       There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

4.       Courage is grace under pressure.

5.       Never mistake motion for action.

6.       Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

7.       A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

8.       All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

9.       You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true.

10.   We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

00251--The Best 10 Quotes of Mark Twain

1. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

2. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

3. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

4. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

5. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

6. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

7. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

8. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

9. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

10.        Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

00247--The Best 10 Quotes of George Bernard Shaw [English literature free notes]

1.  England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

2.  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

3.  A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

4.  The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

5.  Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

6.  The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

7.  We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

8.  Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

9.  Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

10.  A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

00245--The Best 10 Quotes of Samuel Johnson [English literature free notes]

1.      Man is a tool-making animal.

2.      As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.

3.      Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

4.      It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

5.      Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

6.      Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

7.      The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

8.      Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

9.      Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

10.  If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

00244--The Best 10 Quotes of Oscar Wilde [English literature free notes]

1.  The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

2.  The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

3.  Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

4.  I have nothing to declare except my genius.

5.  Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

6.  Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

7.  I am not young enough to know everything.

8.  Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

9.  Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

10.            I can resist anything but temptation.