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