Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#ethics

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ethics




We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.


Christopher Hitchens


#cruelty #ethics #ethics-in-religion #morality #morality-without-religion

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.


Jonathan Safran Foer


#ethics #humans #vegetarianism #dreams

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.


C.S. Lewis


#ethics #legacy #manhood #men #morality

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.


Rose Prince


#food #food

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.


Immanuel Kant


#ethics #guilty #law #man #only

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.


Ville Valo


#even #i #instead #religion #school

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.


Thomm Quackenbush


#carnivore #ethical #ethics #food #hamburgers

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.


Leon Kass


#ethics #even #good #infected #logical way






back to top