I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart MillTags: morality ethics goodness hell punishment good bad moral-philosophy torture threat epithet being creature ethical-philosophy john-stuart-mill sentence torment
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
Thomas PaineTags: equality morality ethics secular-ethics secular-morality rights
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
Jean RostandTags: morality environmentalism
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Patrick HenryTags: morality sin right-and-wrong
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Immanuel KantRespect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
Laurence SterneTags: morality manners morals respect
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
George Bernard ShawTags: morality humankind monogamy
In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because of the power of the media, for millions of men and women the only venue where moral questions are discussed and weighed is the talk show, where more often than not the primary aim is to entertain, even shock, not to think. When Geraldo and Oprah become the arbiters of public morality, when the opinion of the latest media personality is sought on everything from abortion to transvestites, when banality is mistaken for profundity because [it's] uttered by a movie star or a basketball player, it is not surprising that there is less thought than hype. Oprah shapes more of the nation's grasp of right and wrong than most of the pulpits in the land. Personal and social ethics have been removed from the realms of truth and structures of thoughts; they have not only been relativized, but they have been democratized and trivialized.
D.A. CarsonTags: morality world media western the-church pluralism oprah the-twentieth-century
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.
David F. WellsTags: morality media character culture personality postmodernism
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: compassion animals morality animal-rights cruelty barbarism
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