Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between error and evil, there is a difference between mistake and malice.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of so much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. — Stephen R. L. Clark Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Astralis might argue otherwise.” “Without me, morality is strictly defined in terms of what is beneficial for the group and for the… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
“If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
