“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
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Ethical actions can often entail short-term pain, but will always result in long-term gains. By contrast, unethical actions frequently have short-term gains,… — Kashonia Carnegie PhD Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
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