Character Quote by James Rachels

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

— Moses Finley

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.”

— Peter Singer

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

— Georges Lefebvre

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

— David Hume

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.

— Mary Pipher

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance.

— Martha Nussbaum

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

— Woodrow Wilson

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

— Albert Einstein

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

— Jhumpa Lahiri