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The answer can’t be found in books – or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You’ve got to find the answer inside...

—Daniel Keyes

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Knowing your limits, and that there is a limit to getting what you want, comes from a sense of self-respect instilled in you from an early age. It takes guts to stand up in the...

—Goldie Hawn

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The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be...

—Martin Luther

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Everything good is good because of the love it contains.

—John K. Brown

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Don’t just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you’ll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.

—michael p

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The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

—Mary Shelley

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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape,...

—René Descartes

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I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of ‘Meat is Murder’. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone’s...

—Johnny Marr

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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

—Thomas Paine

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407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician’s hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

—Qiu Xiaolong

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I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and...

—Vincent J.

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If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one.But, whereas animals don’t...

—Paul Krassner

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Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited – and indeed the threat to it is great enough...

—Sigmund Freud

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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

—Albert Schweitzer

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What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

—A.J. Darkholme

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

—Bertrand Russell

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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of...

—David Pearce

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Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

—Idries Shah

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Only those with a conscience can find an action unconscionable.

—F.D. Crandall

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if [God] doesn’t exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without God?

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your...

—Donald Van

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From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not...

—György Lukács

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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

—Jostein Gaarder

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si te olvidas de por qué haces lascosas te olvidarás de por qué debes hacerlas bien.

—Jordi Balaguer

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Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

—Karen Davis

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Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy...

—Paracelsus

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5:3 Do Not Wither within Your Area of Expertise…But the lawyer must not allow the client to make a decision that the lawyer believes is wrong without a forceful and effective presentation by the lawyer...

—Peter Siviglia

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A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

—Stefan Molyneux

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Hope is a passion for the possible.

—Søren Kierkegaard

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Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not given meaning by importing it into a revelation from the outside. The meaning...

—Paul Goodman

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Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

—Scott K.

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Ethical hacking!! Is it not an oxymoron?

—Ankala V. Subbarao

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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a...

—Ayn Rand

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Señal de tener gastada la fama propia es cuidar de la infamia ajena.

—Baltasar Gracián

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we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

—C.S. Lewis

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What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future...

—Irvine Welsh

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Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Militärbefehlshaber überlegen nicht zweimal, wenn sie Soldaten in die Schlacht schicken und dabei genau wissen, dass viele von ihnen sterben werden. […] Andererseits verbietet es der Offiziersethos,...

—J.M. Coetzee

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Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one’s position in relation to them; never can one measure one’s velocity or...

—David Gerrold

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His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to suit...

—G.K. Chesterton

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Ethics change with technology.

—Larry Niven

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You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

—Mango Wodzak

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And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more....

—John Steinbeck

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The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I’ve handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

—Josef Albers

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If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!

—Mehmet Murat

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The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

—Sam Harris

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Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon...

—Stifyn Emrys

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How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

—William Longgood

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