Idle Quote by Marquis de Sade

“Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles”

— Seth Czerepak

“The general idea of universal moral norms is ancient, widespread, and endorsed by practically every moral authority up until late in the modern period.”

— Heath White

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

— Mohammad Khatami

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness…

— Dalai Lama

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

— Christopher Hitchens

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the…

— Susan Sontag

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us.…

— Noam Chomsky

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore