#oral

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

— Jeremy Bentham

#moral #vegetarian #morals

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. ↗

— David F. Wells

#culture #media #morality #personality #postmodernism

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

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#english #i #immorality #like #most

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit. ↗

— Brian Castro

#life-lessons #morality #pleasure #life

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#fashion #i #i can #kinds #moral

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#morality #preclude #relationships