You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity,―expensive races,―race living at the expense of race.

Let us be honest we have praised Angulimala, will make no difference If you convey my salute to Amrapali.

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest “is”. – Rossana Condoleo

Good intentions are good netiquette. A conscious effort to be nice others on the internet.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession....

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

It is through justification of one’s actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks...

Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don’t.

Religion and ethics were not always – or even frequently – mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than...

With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we’re seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this...

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist...

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.

Sometimes it isn’t easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn’t turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

whether they knew of didn’t know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn’t know. (…) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, “My conscience...

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When I say religion, I do not mean merely a theology involving...

I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure

What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower scale than humans? Do we deny sensitivity to all of the so-called lower...

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

Forrester wanted to be seen as the candidate of ethics reform. I think that’s slipped away.

Until we are willing to oppose all abortion–ALL ABORTION—then the Christian community will lack the true ethical high ground to oppose ANY ABORTIONS. The minute we concede that there is any ground–even in the so-called...

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that...

Shouldn’t it be atheists, believing they are not being watched, who commit virtually all the crimes and fill up all the prisons, while people who believe in an omnipresent god lead spotless lives out of...

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people’s imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust...

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling...

I think journalism anywhere should be based on social justice and impartiality, making contributions to society as well as taking responsibility in society. Whether you are capitalist or socialist or Marxist, journalists should have the...

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]””Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as...

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.

Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming, but in the presence of my children and my wife and in...

Would you agree,” he said, “that man’s sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?””Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain.” My father crossed his arms. “And only...

It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these...

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the...

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of...