25 quotes
“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable importance, we ought to do it.”
— Peter Singer
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance we ought morally to do it”
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
— Immanuel Kant
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.”
— Leopold
“The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious ethical and spiritual traditions”
— Karen Armstrong
“In civilized life law floats in a sea of ethics”
— Earl Warren
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
“What matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.”
— Derek Parfit
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”
— Socrates
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven.”
— Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
“Live simply so that others may simply live”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.”
— Hans Jonas
“Ethics precedes ontology.”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.”
— Richard Whately
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
“I can only answer the question what am I to do if I can answer the prior question of what story am I part of.”
— Alasdair MacIntyre
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community”
— Aldo Leopold
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
— Bible, Luke 6:31
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.”
“The face of the other commands me.”
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