Quotations – Mojamba

Unknown

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

David French, C.S. Lewis

We don’t know our true values until they’re tested. C.S. Lewis wrote, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” We don’t know if we’re actually honest until we tell the truth when the truth will hurt us.

Thomas Paine

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.

Altered Carbon (Quell Falconer)

How do we practice deceit? We rip the truth apart and reweave it into the lie. Nothing is more convincing.

Author: Altered Carbon | Subjects: Communication, Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

François de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Maria Popova

In the world of science, we endeavor to uncover fundamental laws and elemental truths indifferent to our opinions of them — those selfsame truths and laws that made us and govern the electrical impulses coursing through our cortices at 100 meters per second to forge the thought-patterns of opinion. But in the human world where we live, we swirl in the movable host of human … [ Read more ]

Peter Kropotkin

Human ethics based upon love and personal sympathy only have contributed to narrow the comprehension of the moral feeling as a whole. It is not love to my neighbour — whom I often do not know at all — which induces me to seize a pail of water and to rush towards his house when I see it on fire; it is a far wider, … [ Read more ]

Hindu wisdom

One should not behave towards others in a way which is disagreeable to oneself. This is the essence of morality. All other activities are due to selfish desire.

Author: Hindu wisdom | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Vincent van Gogh

Principles are good and worth the effort only when they develop into deeds.

Author: Vincent van Gogh | Subjects: Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement

Jeff Blum

You can do the right things for the wrong reasons and the wrong things for the right reasons. Neither is satisfying, so always consider your reasons and your actions in tandem.

Author: Jeff Blum | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

James Steiner-Dillon

In a society characterized by freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, individuals bear “burdens of judgment,” as the American philosopher John Rawls wrote. Without the government or an official church telling people what to think, we all have to decide for ourselves – and that inevitably leads to a diversity of moral viewpoints.

Author: James Steiner-Dillon | Source: The Conversation | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society

Friedrich Hayek

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualistic ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Author: Friedrich Hayek | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality

Alexia Salvatierra

Many people in our society see justice as receiving what you have earned. The truth is that we all need more goodness than we have earned. We all need second chances, the room to make mistakes and cause damage without losing the opportunity to grow and fulfill our dreams. At the same time, justice requires that a price be paid. […] This may require extra … [ Read more ]

Author: Alexia Salvatierra | Source: Vox | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Responsibility

Kahlil Gibran

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality

Arthur C. Brooks

In a free society where you don’t fear being locked up for our opinions, true moral courage isn’t standing up to the people with whom you disagree. It’s standing up to the people with whom you agree — on behalf of those with whom you disagree. Are you strong enough to do that? That, I believe, is one way we can live up to Jesus’ … [ Read more ]

Author: Arthur C. Brooks | Source: The Washington Post | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Religion

Benjamin Kessler

The science of management has long revolved around the question “How?” at the expense of “Why?” Widening the discussion to include ends as well as means also opens the door to the most troubling moral and ethical conflicts.

Author: Benjamin Kessler | Subjects: Business, Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality

Maria Popova, Hannah Arendt

…for where truth is absolute — a binary correspondence with reality: a premise either reflects reality or does not — meaning can be relative; it is shaped by one’s subjective interpretation, which is contingent upon beliefs and can be manipulated. Certainty lives in the realm of meaning, not of truth. […] All propaganda is in the business of manipulating certainty, but it can never manipulate … [ Read more ]

Shane Parrish

The real test of intelligence is the degree to which you are willing to “non-conform” in order to do the right thing.

Theodore Roosevelt

To judge a man merely by success is an abhorrent wrong; and if the people at large habitually so judge men, if they grow to condone wickedness because the wicked man triumphs, they show their inability to understand that in the last analysis free institutions rest upon the character of citizenship, and that by such admiration of evil they prove themselves unfit for liberty.

Roy Disney

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Author: Roy Disney | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement