I do think that there is a very unclear level of conduct in the Trump administration. That's one reason you're seeing this among so many different se….
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and re….
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something..
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong..
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past..
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with..
If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws..
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays..
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes..
We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do..
Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology..
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say..
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolut….
Do not be a magician - be magic!.
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!.
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor ….
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroyin….
Goodness is beauty in the best estate..
I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics..
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics..
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us..