Ethics And Moral Philosophy Quotes

“It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.”
― Roger Scruton

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

“Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.”
― Germany Kent

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
― Václav Havel

“The animals themselves are incapable of demanding their own liberation, or of protesting against their condition with votes, demonstrations, or bombs. Human beings have the power to continue to oppress other species forever, or until we make this planet unsuitable for living beings. Will our tyranny continue, proving that we really are the selfish tyrants that the most cynical of poets and philosophers have always said we are? Or will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible? The way in which we answer this question depends on the way in which each one of us, individually, answers it.”
― Peter Singer

“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”
― James Connolly

“It's the love of right lures men to wrong.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“Knowing Tim was a sucker for logical deduction and facts, he would pursue that avenue to entice Tim to step into the realm of blurred ethical lines where right and wrong weren’t as apparent and defined, or didn’t even matter. Dale also knew that if he could convince Tim before he alighted at the subway’s terminus of his argument, Jeremy would assimilate to his ideology somewhere along the journey without any direct effort on his part.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome.”
― Adebowale Babatunde Ojowuro, Echoes of Common Sense

“Why is your HOW message today more timely than ever?
All progress now depends on How. We have entered the Era of Behavior. Of course our behavior has always mattered, but in today’s world, it matters more than ever and in ways it never has before. We live in a more connected and interdependent world. Yet we tend to speak about the world in amoral terms. The single most profound implication of an increasingly interconnected world is that it has rendered us ethically, if not morally, interdependent.”
― Dov Seidman

“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another man triggers a gender prejudice, by proxy rather than based on a characteristic of their own, like racism and classism do: dolls and pink are traditionally associated with the feminine sphere, anal sexuality has a higher stigma mainly because a more visible power level play comes into effect (with a dominant and a submissive role) than other sex positions. Consequently, when a man crosses his "designated" gender role boundary of masculinity, strength, dominance into femininity, weakness, submission, then he is no longer valued as a human being, for the man has become [or is] a woman. Therefore, homophobia and transphobia are actually by-products of misogyny, which is is turn gynophobic whitewashing, deeply rooted in the dominant ideology of patriarchy and historical sexism.”
― Vincent Bozzino, Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide

“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable. This straitjacket psychology relates his fiction directly back to the black and white ethical world of fairy tale and fable; it is in conflict with his frequently expounded general theory of moral relativity, that good and evil are not the same thing at all times and in all places.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“Using others is a sin.
Why should I wish
to use another?”
― Kamo no Chōmei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World

“Ethics is [...] the philosophic branch of inquiry which talks about right and wrong, which talks about our moral obligations, which inquires into our certainty of what we ought and ought not to do. Ethics asks, "What is it to be a human being, and to engage in actions that are appropriate to a human being? [...] investigates the part of human beings that are not animals, that are not specifically, completely, part of nature.It investigates the element in human beings which make choices, which are free, which, in the ancient intellectual tradition, "have souls.”
― michael surge

“Is it objectively wrong to torture innocent babies, just for fun? Is morality relative?”
― Vincent Bozzino, Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide

“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another man triggers a gender prejudice, by proxy rather than based on a characteristic of their own, like racism and classism do: dolls and pink are traditionally associated with the feminine sphere, anal sexuality has a higher stigma than vaginal, mainly because a more visible power level play comes into effect (with a dominant and a submissive role). Consequently, when a man crosses his "designated" gender role boundary of masculinity, strength, dominance into femininity, weakness, submission, then he is no longer valued as a human being, for the man has become [or is] a woman. Therefore, homophobia and transphobia are actually by-products of misogyny, which is is turn gynophobic whitewashing, deeply rooted in the dominant ideology of patriarchy and historical sexism. [...]”
― Vincent Bozzino, Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide

“Lež člověka oddaluje od poznání skutečné pravdy.”
― Matouš Čihák

“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences of this action? Will it damage my life? Will it damage someone else’s? The answers to those questions are based in reality.”
― Kassandra Dick

“disrupts socio-technological balance, all scientific advancement due to intelligence overcoming compensating for limitations, can't carry a load so invent wheel, can't catch food so invents spear, limitations. no limitations no advancement no advancement, culture stagnates. works other way too, advancement before culture is ready. disasterous”
― Mordin Solus

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“One who voluntarily destroys another- he in so doing destroys himself.”
― Connor Patrick Sullivan, Philosophy of The Individual: A Radical Exploration of Consciousness, Individualism, and the True Nature of Reality

“When one treats another as a pawn on a chessboard, and takes advantage of him, he does not understand that he is taking advantage of himself too.”
― Connor Patrick Sullivan, Philosophy of The Individual: A Radical Exploration of Consciousness, Individualism, and the True Nature of Reality

“You who have contempt for the sufferers of the world and those who complain of it- how are you exerting contempt for the greater part of the population, claiming it to be for the greater good? Is it for the greater good because you are greater, and you are good?”
― Connor Patrick Sullivan, Philosophy of The Individual: A Radical Exploration of Consciousness, Individualism, and the True Nature of Reality

“Professionalism is not just about making money.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Whoever reads and listens to this book ethics, he never faces defeat even from Indra”
― Vishnu Sharma, Panchatantra

“Any comfort you find in hating someone who speaks the truth is short-lived—and often replaced by regret.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“People's emotions are not for profits.”
― Mitta Xinindlu