Quotes About Virtue

The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.

The earning of money within the modern economic order is, so long as it is done legally, the result and the expression of virtue and proficiency in a calling; and this virtue and proficiency are, as it is now not difficult to see

The Quaker ethic also holds that a man's life in his calling is an exercise in ascetic virtue, a proof of his  state of grace through his conscientiousness, which is expressed in the care  and method with which he pursues his calling. What

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Terror is nothing other than prompt, stern, inflexible justice; terror thus issues from virtue; it is less a particular maxim than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing needs of the fatherland.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue," said Spinoza in his book Ethics, "but virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain our lusts; but, on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore are we able to restrain them.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Živi što ljepše, ali tako da te nije stid. I radije pristani da te Bog pita: zašto nisi to u?inio?

What is the purpose of piety if there are no temptations to resist? Man is not God, his strength is the ability to restrain his own nature, so I thought, and if he has nothing to restrain, then what are his merits?

A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.