ethics

"Revolutionary morality consists, in whatever circumstances, in resolutely struggling against all enemies, maintaining one's vigilance, standing ready to fight, and refusing to submit, to bow one's hea…"

"The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limite…"

"I took pleasure when I could... I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."

"Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues."

"My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot… So we said, "Let's give him a promotion."

"“This theme of literal creation is so inwrought into the structure of historic thinking, that it will require a long struggle on the part of criticism to get rid of it. Through the influence of the Ch…"

"This point is, in essence, the most important and overlooked one regarding the rationality of ethics. The traditional dispute between Kantians and sentimentalists rests on an assumption that to be rat…"

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

"There were so many different characters that I have played. Radha in Sangam was a very sophisticated woman and the setting was very refined, while in Dhanno in Gunga Jumna was rustic, a village belle.…"

"Euclidean geometry is only one of several congruence geometries... Each of these geometries is characterized by a real number K, which for Euclidean geometry is 0, for the hyperbolic negative, and for…"

"A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself — and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?"

"There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched."

"Mockery; the righteousness of fools everywhere."

"If we discover that religious morality was a result of historical misunderstanding, then we will need to free this morality from the prison of human virtue."

"What exactly is the minority moral position for which members of a gathering such as this are likely to be propagandists? It will certainly differ slightly from person to person. There is, however, on…"

"Getting rid of predation isn't a matter of moralising. A python who kills a small human child isn't morally blameworthy. Nor is a lion who hunts and kills a terrified zebra. In both cases, the victim …"

"His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune."

"If we had to accept the principle of numerical superiority while selecting our national bird, the choice would have fallen not on the peacock but on the common crow."

"Putting the word democratic in front of your Socialism doesn't make it any inherently more moral nor less violent."

"Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely."