I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Aristotle

Mots clés morality philosophy law secular-ethics secular-morality



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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 Paine

Mots clés equality morality ethics secular-ethics secular-morality rights



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I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mots clés morality atheism humanism expectation secular-morality humanist reward



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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

Mots clés happiness pain morality ethics misery secular-morality



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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

John Quincy Adams

Mots clés mankind charity secular-ethics secular-morality



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We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Pythagoras

Mots clés secular-ethics secular-morality



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As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]

Thomas Jefferson

Mots clés moral-philosophy greece secular-ethics secular-morality epicurus epicureanism epicurean philosophy-rome



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Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī

Mots clés morality ethics morals shame responsibility secular-morality fairness scoundrel scoundrels shameful



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