Quotes About Virtue

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

honorific pronoun.

God prefers a good atheist to a wicked believer.

Good. You realize what temptation can do to even the strongest virtue?

Don't allow anything to be used for bad, but let it be used only for good.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I

W ?yciu interesowa?y go przede wszystkim mi?osne podboje, dybanie na niewie?ci? cnot? i jej niszczenie.

The world, when it comes down to it, is just the schoolyard writ large. Being on the side of truth and virtue doesn't help anyone. You have to be on the side of popularity and power!

?nsanlar?n kötülükleri ya?ar tunçta, yazar?z erdemlerini suya." - Shakespeare

the founding fathers wholeheartedly believed "life was a school for virtue, and one must find the proper teachers."366 As a teacher, someone of Cincinnatus's virtue was "emulated, and spread," as Hume said, by "contagion."367

If you look closely at the price-gouging debate, you'll notice that the arguments for and against price-gouging laws revolve around three ideas: maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue.

Those who are greatest in civic excellence—not the wealthiest, or the most numerous, or the most handsome—are the ones who merit the greatest share of political recognition and influence.

the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. What matters is the motive, and the motive must be of a certain kind. What matters is doing the right thing because it's right, not for some ulterior motive.

then Rawls may have a point. Even effort can't be the basis of moral desert. The claim that people deserve the rewards that come from effort and hard work is questionable for a further reason: although proponents of meritocracy often invoke the virtues of effort, they don't really believe that effort alone should be the basis of income and wealth.

If I am responsible for having accrued a handsome share of worldly goods—income and wealth, power and prestige—I must deserve them. Success is a sign of virtue. My affluence is my due.

ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom. And

Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain in base ones. Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

How does the economist help? By promoting policies that rely, whenever possible, on self-interest rather than altruism or moral considerations, the economist saves society from squandering its scarce supply of virtue. "If we economists do [our] business well," Robertson concludes, "we can, I believe, contribute mightily to the economizing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ of that scarce resource Love," the "most precious thing in the world."49

For Aristotle, politics is about something higher. It's about learning how to live a good life.

Nó không d?y chúng ta cách phân bi?t Ä'úng sai, mà "ch? làm th? nào ?? tính toán gi?i hÆ¡n".

B?n ph?i thá»±c hành [...]: "Chúng ta tr? thành ng??i công b?ng b?ng cách thá»±c hi?n công b?ng, tr? thành ng??i ôn hòa b?ng cách hành Ä'á»™ng ôn hòa, tr? thành ng??i dÅ©ng c?m b?ng cách thá»±c hi?n hành Ä'á»™ng dÅ©ng c?m".

Chìm ng?p trong hành vi ??o ??c giúp chúng ta có ???c khuynh hÆ°á»›ng hành Ä'á»™ng có ??o ??c

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.