#moral

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fearlessness #morality #spiritual

I absolutely refuse to associate myself with anyone who cannot discern the essential night-and-day difference between theocratic fascism and liberal secular democracy, even less do I want to engage with those who are incapable of recognizing the basic moral distinction between premeditated mass murder and unintentional killing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#collateral-damage #false-equivalence #moral-equivalence #war-on-terror #iraq

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer? ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#moral #vegetarian #morals

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#morality #environmentalism

It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#factionalism #moral-superiority #environmentalism

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#engineering #ethics #genetic #genetic engineering #i

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. ↗

— Josh Billings

#life #making #making money #man #money

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#morality #preclude #relationships

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#anything #been #blessed #christian #get

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly