Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.
Gary SteinerTag: power animals morality silence tragedy oppression violence invisibility kinship speciesism
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: art arts morality freedom ethics morals virtue moderation media artists christian virtues modesty catholic arts-and-humanities freedom-of-expression limits dignity catholic-author gadfly ethics-and-moral-philosophy dignity-in-the-arts free-for-all virtue-of-modesty virtues-and-vices
But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
Leo TolstoyTag: kindness love morality merit
People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: morality humanity human-nature breeding domesticating
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: wisdom politics truth error morality morals justice democracy philosophical law christian right-and-wrong voting laws catholic catholic-author justice-system gadfly error-and-truth hard-truths bad-laws democracy-gone-wrong evil-laws referrendum votings
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
Criss JamiTag: morality cooperation society criticism working challenges jobs job-interviews immorality judgmental resume
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
MenciusTag: morality limitations great-men
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
MenciusTag: morality philosophy shame shamelessness
Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another. -- Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73
Gilles DeleuzeTag: morality ethics leibniz deleuze
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
Thomas MertonTag: morality god conscience
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