A Quote by Peter Singer

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

Peter Singer

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Anything Bad Comparable Happening Importance Moral Morally Ought Our Power Prevent Something Thereby Without

Quote Author

Peter Singer
Australian - Philosopher
Born: July 6, 1946

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E. Stanley Jones

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Robert Penn Warren

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

Allen W. Wood

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.

Alison Stewart

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James Q. Wilson

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.

Hiromu Arakawa

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John Adams

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Harry Browne

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Ava DuVernay

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.