27 quotes
“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
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.”
— Richard Whately
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”
— Socrates
“In civilized life law floats in a sea of ethics”
— Earl Warren
“The face of the other commands me.”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.”
— Leopold
“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
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
— Immanuel Kant
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community”
— Aldo Leopold
“The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious ethical and spiritual traditions”
— Karen Armstrong
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
— Bible, Luke 6:31
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”
“Ethics precedes ontology.”
“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”
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven.”
— Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community.”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
— George Washington
“What matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.”
— Derek Parfit
“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
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