Character Quote by Daniel Bell

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

— Albert Bandura

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

— Richard Marshall

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

— Thomas Aquinas

It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I…

— Allen W. Wood

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is…

— Erich Fromm

In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be…

— Allen W. Wood

“I would argue that religion itself is a corruption.  Isn’t it good enough to look at Jesus as a dubiously historical moral philosopher that…

— Noah Lugeons

Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is carefully developed,…

— Michael Walzer