The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Conscience, Madam, requireth knowledge; and I fear that right knowledge ye have none. — John Knox Copy Share Image
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?” — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. — John Francis Dodge Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as… — Rossana Condoleo Copy Share Image
A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One… — Elaine Bernard Copy Share Image
When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image