Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to… — Horace Fletcher Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear… — Jack Norris Copy Share Image
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee 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
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people. — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
