{"quotes":[{"text":"Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["bacon","carnivore","ethical","ethics","food","hamburgers","suffering","vegetarian"],"id":224,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["actions","collide","collision","contradict","contradictory","dishonest","distort","distortion","ethical","fact","fiction","honest","honesty","integrity","lies","manipulate","manipulation","moral","truth","words"],"id":22695,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.","author":"Albert Schweitzer","tags":["compassion","ethical","ethics","vegan","veganism"],"id":23047,"author_id":"Albert+Schweitzer"},{"text":"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ","author":"Vilhjalmur Stefansson","tags":["advertising","ethical "],"id":24808,"author_id":"Vilhjalmur+Stefansson"},{"text":"In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.","author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","tags":["allegorical-interpretation","allegory","ity","difficulty","divine","ethical","excalibur","greek-mythology","interpretation","naturalism","scripture","stoics","theologian"],"id":26842,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Huxley"},{"text":"To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships.","author":"Harshit Walia","tags":["ethical","ethics","law","legal","manhood","move-on","relationships"],"id":28055,"author_id":"Harshit+Walia"},{"text":"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["biology","consolations","control","ethical","evolution","ignorant","neurosis","psychology","science","wishful-thinking"],"id":30221,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["acknowledge","admit","choice","choices","choosing","chose","correct","decide","deciding","decisions","easier","easy","ethical","fail","failed","failure","fool","foolish","moral","right","wisdom","wise"],"id":46953,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Someone once said to me, 'There are so many religions in the world. They can't all be right.' And my reply was, 'Well, they can't all be wrong either.' All religions in the world today share more commonalities than differences, yet language blinds many from seeing these truths. Some people will tell me that what I write about is straight from their holy book, but the truth is that the main principles found in all holy books were already engraved in all our hearts. If you think common sense, the golden rule and knowing right from wrong are exclusive only to your faith, then you need to open yourself up to the rest of the world's religions.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["belief","books","catholicism","christianity","common-sense","conscience","dualism","ethical","ethics","faith","god","god","golden-rule","higher-power","hinduism","honor","islam","judaism","literature","love","moral-philosophy","morality","philosophy","politics","principles","religion","religions","relkigion","right","right-and-wrong","suzy-kassem","truth","universe","world-religions","wrong"],"id":50935,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We distill happiness from garnering joy in the ordinary fragments of life, while dedicating personal effort to creating a body of work that one can look back on their deathbed and be satisfied with achieving. Happiness comes from living beautifully, which necessarily involves reason in thought and speech (logos), and leading an ethical and virtuous life devoted to achieving worthy goals.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["ethical","ethical-behavior","happiness","happiness","happy-life","virtue","virtue","virtuous","virtuous-person"],"id":88978,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}