All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre… — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no… — James Williams Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires.… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
![“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your…” quote by Derek Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ed/derek-parfit-38765_action_while-reasons-are-provided-by-the-facts_2530646.jpg)
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