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So, at any rate, it appears. But appearance is not reality. — Gordon Graham

I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise. — George Santayana

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity — Stefan Molyneux

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. — John Rawls

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ... — Peter Singer

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself. — Marcus Aurelius

I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.) — Adrian Lamo

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left. — Peter Singer

I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free. — Saurabh Gupta

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being. — Marcus Aurelius

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal. — Linda Fisher Thornton

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. — Immanuel Kant

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. — Alva Myrdal

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed. — Christopher Earle

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers. — Stefan Molyneux

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules. — David Chiles

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

It's the love of right lures men to wrong. — Kim Stanley Robinson

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. — Andre Comte-Sponville

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview. — Nancy Pearcey

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things? — Nenia Campbell

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices. — Linda Fisher Thornton

If ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red — Priyavrat Thareja

Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans. — Abhijit Naskar

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority. — Donald J. Trump

One's interest or need does not annul other's right. — Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

[W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start — Frank Jackson

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong. — Martin Cohen

In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself? — Orhan Pamuk

Hope is a passion for the possible. — Soren Kierkegaard

Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas. — Martin Cohen

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't. — Luke Myer

The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based. — Henry Johnson Jr

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. — Alice Bag

The greed of power drowns our ethics. — Henry Johnson Jr

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost. — Abigail Landsbrook

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth. — Immanuel Kant

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity. — Debasish Mridha

Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind. — Debasish Mridha

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men — Baruch Spinoza

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. — Douglas MacArthur

Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause (Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium). — Baruch Spinoza

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it. — Plato

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma. — Shelley Schanfield

Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate. — Christopher Hitchens

The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy. — Lyn White

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity. — Aristotle.

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

Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about. — Peter Singer

Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans. — William James

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt) — Albert Camus

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace. — Aristotle.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition — Baruch Spinoza

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ... — Aldous Huxley

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility. — Baruch Spinoza

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. — Stefan Molyneux

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper. — Peter Singer

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? — Kevin Dutton

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. — Simone De Beauvoir

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? — K.L. Toth

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without. — Dalai Lama

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. — G.E. Moore

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact — Peter Singer

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it. — Leon R. Kass

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? — Chuck Klosterman

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit — Aristotle.

It's Unfair to be fair,
For Life is unfair — Farley Maglaya

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. — G.E. Moore

I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law. — Aristotle.

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? — Various

Ethics is a dream. — Charles Baxter

Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong. — Peter Singer

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them. — G.E. Moore

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious. — Stefan Molyneux

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets. — Byrd Baggett

Discontent is the seed of ethics. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority. — Nenia Campbell

Good, then, is indefinable.... — G.E. Moore

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

I don't know the ethics, but some times sex is at highest priority in a relationship. — Nikhil Yadav

I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end. — Lisa M. Lilly