Moral Philosophy Quotes

22 Moral Philosophy quotes by 20 unique authors

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
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
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. — Hans Morgenthau
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
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
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
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
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy,… — Albion W. Small
We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles among empirical motives… — Kant

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