Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination…

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

— Semir Zeki

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

— Phil Ochs

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

— Susan Sontag

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Ethics is a dream.”

— Charles Baxter

For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian…

— Allen W. Wood

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences…

— Kassandra Dick

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our…

— Steve Perry

“In a fallen world, it was hard to do unambiguous good.”

— Thomas Keneally

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are…

— Rush Limbaugh