Ancient Quote by Tacitus

“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

History is a conflict of two moral types - the predatory and the constructive - and these can be found in all societies, all…

— Syed Hussein Alatas

The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given…

— Eben Moglen

Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

— Frans de Waal

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer…

— African Spir

The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given…

— Eben Moglen

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without…

— James W. Loewen

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and…

— Alice Crary