Moral Philosophy Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
— Edward Abbey
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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are…
— Thomas Hobbes
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me…
— Leon Trotsky
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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
— Iris Murdoch
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and…
— A. A. Gill
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to…
— Flora Lewis
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Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.
— Hans Morgenthau
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It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge…
— Michael Schudson
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We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political…
— Geoffrey Miller
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Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and…
— John Seabrook
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Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
— Anthony Burgess
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Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of…
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life…
— Michel de Montaigne
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have…
— Anne Lamott
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We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We…
— Iris Murdoch
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The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon…
— Leon Trotsky
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The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Who Wrote These Moral Philosophy Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Moral Philosophy Quotes as follows: