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title: "5 Ethical Progress Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/not-because-the-moral-law-enjoins-unselfishness-but-because-given-the/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/i-take-the-ethical-truths-to-be-the-stable-elements-that-emerge-out/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [“Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-henry-huxley/let-us-understand-once-for-all-that-the-ethical-progress-of-society/)

[Thomas Henry Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-henry-huxley/)

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> [The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowie/the-humanists-replacement-for-religion-work-really-hard-and-somehow/)

[David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bowie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/david-bowie-508_ethical_the-humanists-replacement-for-religion-w_2708348.jpg)

> [Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freeman-dyson/ethical-progress-is-the-only-cure-for-the-damage-done-by-scientific/)

[Freeman Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freeman-dyson/)

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