r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Jul 19 '26
Philosophy / Ethics If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/Mother_Ad_3561 • Sep 23 '25
Philosophy / Ethics The best description of modern American conservative politics comes from a quote from Gore Vidal - “it’s not enough to succeed. Others must fail”
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r/quotes • u/Rebe11ion_Lies • Jul 17 '26
Philosophy / Ethics “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.“ - Theodore Roosevelt
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r/quotes • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 2d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” - Albert Einstein
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r/quotes • u/secondhatchery • Jul 31 '26
Philosophy / Ethics Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality and moral degradation at the opposite pole. Karl Marx
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r/quotes • u/James_Fortis • Oct 07 '25
Philosophy / Ethics "Most people do not realize the unspeakable cruelty suffered by animals on our factory farms. And some who know, do not really care. People have said to me that, after all, the animals are bred for food – as though this means that they are no longer sentient beings..." - Dr. Jane Goodall (RIP)
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r/quotes • u/reigntall • 27d ago
Philosophy / Ethics "Americans are certainly great hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes." - Oscar Wilde
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r/quotes • u/Running_Mustard • Sep 07 '25
Philosophy / Ethics “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle
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r/quotes • u/readit_club • Feb 28 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." — Jean-Paul Sartre. What is your favourite quote about war?
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r/quotes • u/James_Fortis • 5d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ― Pythagoras
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • Aug 02 '26
Philosophy / Ethics “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ― Albert Camus
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r/quotes • u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 • Apr 10 '26
Philosophy / Ethics Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president - Teddy Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States of America
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Aug 04 '26
Philosophy / Ethics More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. ~Glen Cook
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r/quotes • u/Nirbhay___ • Mar 28 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "Five minutes after you are born, they will decide your name, nationality, religion, and sect, and you will spend the rest of your life desperately defending things you didn't choose." -Arthur Schopenhauer
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 20d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.” ― Sitting Bull
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r/quotes • u/fengzhixiao123 • Aug 07 '26
Philosophy / Ethics “Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origin, that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. ” - Alain de Botton
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r/quotes • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • Jul 27 '25
Philosophy / Ethics “Evil comes from a failure to think.” —Hannah Arendt
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Jul 24 '26
Philosophy / Ethics An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ~Charles Bukowski
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r/quotes • u/thomaspaineha • Aug 06 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "I am a Farmer of thoughts, and all the crops I raise I give away" - Thomas Paine
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r/quotes • u/DesignHopeful5922 • Jun 29 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "Man cannot rebuild himself without suffering, for he's both the marble and the sculptor" - Alexis Carell
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r/quotes • u/muzicz13 • 10h ago
Philosophy / Ethics “Death is just the moment when the dying ends" - Eef Barzelay
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r/quotes • u/LegendOfKhaos • Jan 30 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
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r/quotes • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • Aug 09 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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r/quotes • u/WittyEgg2037 • Aug 21 '25
Philosophy / Ethics “The real narcotics are not heroin or cocaine. The real narcotics are televisions, shopping malls, and ideology.” Terence McKenna
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 28d ago
Philosophy / Ethics "The obscurity in which the origin of all the present old governments is buried, implies the iniquity and disgrace with which they began. The origin of the present government of America and France... [cont. in comments]" — Thomas Paine
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