Moral Philosophy Quotes
Moral Philosophy Quote of the day
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.
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.
I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.
There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.
In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.
True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.
What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.
Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.
Never underestimate the power of a tweet.
If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.
Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.
What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....
Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red
the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.
What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?
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.
Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.
...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.
I am not a wishing well with legs. (Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.
For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.