Criticism Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.…

— Andrew Davison

“any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and…

— S.T. Joshi

“the ethical and political ideas of Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson. However, once the heretical scientific insights are translated into everyday technology, routine activities and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine”

— John Henry Newman

“Each of us talked about what we thought the “ethics of equality” was, from our own point of view, without paying any attention to…

— Richard Feynman

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have…

— William Ralph Inge

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people…

— Alexei Panshin

“Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely to achieve…

— Bertrand Russell

Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as…

— Herbert Spencer

“Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves.”

— Donald Fairbairn

“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best…

— Immanuel Kant

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill