Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Civilization depends on morality.

I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

We have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice.

I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.