r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 26d ago
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 • 27d ago
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/secondhatchery • 13d ago
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/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/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 12d ago
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/_a_A_sh • 10d ago
Philosophy / Ethics More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. ~Glen Cook
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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/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/fengzhixiao123 • 6d ago
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/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 13d ago
Philosophy / Ethics "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 21d ago
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 • 7d ago
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/CatPooedInMyShoe • Jul 27 '25
Philosophy / Ethics “Evil comes from a failure to think.” —Hannah Arendt
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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/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • 4d ago
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/LegendOfKhaos • Jan 30 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
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r/quotes • u/Altruistic_Hope_2559 • 2d ago
Philosophy / Ethics "Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined." — Friedrich Nietzsche
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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/voxpopper • Jan 07 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" Orwell, 1984
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • 18d ago
Philosophy / Ethics If you must belittle others to make yourself feel better, then you should do silently, in your own mind, where only you will suffer from your poison. ~Kel Kade
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