Quotes about Ethical Clarity

Ayn Rand

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Giacomo Leopardi

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Patrick Ness

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

David L. Wolper

I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today.

John Wooden

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

Jane Fonda

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Epictetus

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

Henry Van Dyke

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

Plato

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.'
'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

Jim Butcher

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Abraham Lincoln

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Edmund Wilson

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

William Barclay

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

Harriet Martineau

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

Felix Adler

We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

Red Auerbach

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Ethical Clarity Quotes