“ There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does th… Mencius
“ As you say of yourself, I too am an . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.[] Thomas Jefferson
“ Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it. Abhijit Naskar
“ There is no middle ground for moral choice and political decision because by being on a safe side, any indecisive act poses a moral hazard to the individual freedom and integrity of a democratic socie… Danny Castillones Sillada
“ If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left. Peter Singer
“ It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others. Wayne Gerard Trotman
“ Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that di… Peter Singer
“ If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government, Peter Singer
“ A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were asked how much America should give, the median answers ranged from 5 percent to 10 percent of govern… Peter Singer
“ If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives and may… Robert A. Heinlein
“ There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destruction of an ancient forest on the grounds that it will earn us substantial export income is problematic,… Peter Singer
“ Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning.... Peter Singer
“ Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, so we should preserve wilderness even… Peter Singer
“ Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong. Peter Singer
“ Men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man. Baruch Spinoza
“ Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the laws of nature (heteronomy), and, second, as belonging to the intelligible world… Immanuel Kant
“ What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Stanislaw Lem
