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If you are going to do that, would you mind not jostling the bed so much?' came a sarcastic voice near the head board. 'Perhaps you could roll around on the floor. ↗


— Julie Kagawa


#fooling-around #grimalkin #sarcasm #voice

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ↗


— Albert Schweitzer


#ethics #peace #vegetarianism #ethics

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗


— Erich Fromm


#double-standards #envy #hate #indignation #morality

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable. ↗


— Maggie Stiefvater


#blue #helicopters #lol #ethics

Philosophy can make people sick. ↗


— Aristotle


#ethics

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#ethics #nietzsche #ethics

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗


— Brandon Sanderson


#exhaustion #lightsong #work #work-ethic #ethics

I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value. ↗


— Pentti Linkola


#misanthropy #overpopulation #equality

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. ↗


— Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ↗


— Bernhard Schlink


#law #morality #ethics






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