Caught Quote by John Grisham

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good…

— Susan Sontag

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do…

— John Steinbeck

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It…

— Albert Einstein

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use…

— Patricia Schroeder

We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

— David Hume

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

— Albert Schweitzer

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The…

— Ursula K. Le Guin