Character Quote by Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions,…

— Peter Singer

“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are…

— Jacques Barzun

“Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured.…

— James W. Sire

“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language,…

— Ayn Rand

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will…

— James W Sire

“The moral judgments and acts of the soul all involve an exercise of reason, so that it is impossible to separate the ethical and…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.”

— George Dennison

“Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral…

— Gregory B. Sadler

“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it…

— Walter Lippmann

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason,…

— Charles Darwin