#oral

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

Books follow morals, and not morals books. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#follow #morals

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist. ↗

— Peter Singer

#freedom #good #instance #morally #over

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#giving #however #lesson #me #means

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#mean #morality #philosophy #practice #produces

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#bruce #improve #lenny #lenny bruce #make

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#between #ceaselessly #decisive #essence #evil

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

#blight #condition #copes #except #find

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#usefulness #life

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honor #integrity #moral-courage #obligation #truth