Moral-philosophy Quotes

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessaril...

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

[It] is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-pe...

Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world ...

What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every...

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as ...

...in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make ...

Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances tha...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of pe...

There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries f...

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reas...

Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today...

...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is d...

A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were ...

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are gett...

If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act according...

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conc...

There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destructio...

If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is foo...

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?