{"quotes":[{"text":"It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["evil","karma","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","life-and-sayings","moral-philosophy","morality","quotable"],"id":5583,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"We must not, therefore, be frightened by the assertion that a thing is natural into the admission that it is good; good does not, by definition, mean anything that is natural; and it is therefore always an open question whether anything that is natural is good.","author":"G.E. Moore","tags":["ethics","goodness","moral-philosophy","morality","philosophy","tolerance"],"id":31063,"author_id":"G.E.+Moore"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peter Singer","tags":["economic-justice","ethics","fairness","left-wing","moral-philosophy","politics"],"id":34672,"author_id":"Peter+Singer"},{"text":"Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.","author":"Peter Singer","tags":["contrarianism","ethics","moral-philosophy","progress","reform"],"id":37835,"author_id":"Peter+Singer"},{"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":"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["ethics","happiness","moral-philosophy","morality","nature","pain","philosophy","philosophy-of-ethics","pleasure","reason","utilitarianism","utility"],"id":51189,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"If indeed good were a feeling....Then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalistic fallacy. It will always remain pertinent to ask, whether the feeling itself is good; and if do, then good cannot itself be identical with any feeling.","author":"G.E. Moore","tags":["ethics","goodness","moral-philosophy","philosophy"],"id":54221,"author_id":"G.E.+Moore"},{"text":"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["ethics","greatest-happiness-principle","moral-philosophy","pain","philosophy","pleasure","utilitarianism","utility"],"id":61304,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"[It] is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our concepts, of which morality is the foremost one, but because if we do not do this (which, if we did, would be a crude circle in explanation), the concept of his will that is left over to us, the attributes of the desire for glory and domination, bound up with frightful representations of power and vengeance, would have to make a foundation for a system of morals that is directly opposed to morality.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["ethics","moral-philosophy","secular-ethics"],"id":64422,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"...Fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.","author":"G.E. Moore","tags":["aesthetics","ethics","fiction","moral-philosophy","philosophy"],"id":69833,"author_id":"G.E.+Moore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}