Affirmative Quote by Albert Schweitzer

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral…

— Ayn Rand

“The lens of Pessimism ethics; pierces the illusions of optimism, reminds us that pain and evil are not mere outliers but prevailing forces in…

— Carson Anekeya

“Why is your HOW message today more timely than ever? All progress now depends on How. We have entered the Era of Behavior. Of…

— Dov Seidman

“In the Western world we often choose to complicate our lives, believing that the path to self-realisation is outside of ourselves or beyond our…

— Les Price

“I do most sincerely believe that ethical behavior as we best construe it ought to be followed by us throughout our lives, even on…

— William T. Vollmann

“Such altruism, generated in the seclusion of one's own thoughts, becomes a subtle means of evading concrete inter-personal responsibility and of justifying to oneself…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria…

— Mohsin Hamid

“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

“It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling." ”

— Georges Bataille

“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability…

— Val Plumwood