Conception Quote by Alice Crary

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and…

— Alice Crary

In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary,…

— Alice Crary

The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the…

— Peter Singer

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

— Albert Schweitzer

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

— George Monbiot

Merely being human is morally significant.

— Alice Crary

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

— Maya Angelou

A societies needs determines their ethics

— Maya Angelou

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

— Bertrand Russell

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

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any…

— Albert Schweitzer