If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Isabel had firm views on moral proximity and the obligations it created. WE cannot choose the situations in which we become involved… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love!… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in… — John Galt Copy Share Image
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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