1,250 Quotes About Ethics



  • Author David Hume
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    .. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

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  • Author Francis Hutcheson
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    Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

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  • Author Sam Harris
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    The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

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  • Author Victor Hugo
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    In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet.

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