Doing things Quote by Stephen McAndrew

“When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.”

— Charles W. Colson

“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of…

— Alain de Botton

“We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don’t live with them.”

— Trevor Noah

“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem…

— Clarice Lispector

“The goal of any self-respecting human being tolerant of others is to favor anything that increases a person's ability to control her own fate,…

— John R. Bradley

“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live.…

— Timothy Keller

“Our obsession of being accepted by others has turned us into a society that has No shame . No love. No remorse . No…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn’t keep.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“people do, in fact, act against their moral convictions and this is an unhappy fact about ourselves’.”

— Gurcharan Das

“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Imagine what our world would be life if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren’t threatened by other people’s opinions or skin colours…

— Jen Sincero