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Derek Parfit2 quotes
Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea. — Derek Parfit · 2017The part of our moral theory... That covers how we affect future generations... Is the most important part of our moral theory, since the next few centuries will be the most important in human history. — Derek Parfit · 1984Martin Luther King, Jr.2 quotes
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1961Confucius1 quote
Moral force never dwells in solitude; it will always bring neighbors. — Confucius · 221 BCLeo Tolstoy1 quote
There can be only one permanent revolution-a moral one. — Leo Tolstoy · 1900Omar Bradley1 quote
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar Bradley · 1948R.S. Surtees1 quote
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — R.S. Surtees · 1846Stanislaw Lec1 quote
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? — Stanislaw Lec · 1957Theodore Parker1 quote
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker · 1853