Access Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

— Samuel Johnson

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

— Alexander McCall Smith

truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

— Sissela Bok

Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.

— Hiromu Arakawa

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

— Brenda Shoshanna

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we…

— David Bezmozgis

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to…

— Paul Farmer

“The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human…

— William Boyd

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able…

— Dalai Lama