values Quotes

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.