“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.” — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Confucianism is not a religion but rather a system of moral philosophy that originated in China in the teachings of Kong Fuzi… — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists:… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Ethical actions can often entail short-term pain, but will always result in long-term gains. By contrast, unethical actions frequently have short-term gains,… — Kashonia Carnegie PhD Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Despite my deep unease about animal advocates working for things we don't want and asking for changes we don't believe in, I… — Sarahjane Blum Copy Share Image
“. . . Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path . . . Utilitarians and others… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
