“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.” — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
“Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Confucianism is not a religion but rather a system of moral philosophy that originated in China in the teachings of Kong Fuzi… — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The truth is, morality is not driven by anything, it is the one thing that drives everything else. Morality is the fundamental… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“. . . Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path . . . Utilitarians and others… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“Lovers of freedom are, of course, also by and large lovers of tolerance and permissiveness. Being tolerant and permissive, especially toward others,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
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