Home / Quotes / Quote by Mario Bunge

Quote by Mario Bunge

“Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.”

Quote by Mario Bunge

Author

Mario Bunge is an Argentine-born philosopher known for his contributions to the fields of philosophy of science, logic, epistemology, and ethics. His thoughts are deeply influenced by positivism and rationalism, emphasizing the importance of the scientific method in understanding the world. more

You May Also Like

“From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.”

Kind Political Social Tools Historical Superstitions Viewpoints Political View Social Control

Author:Mario Bunge

“A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.”

States Belief Particular Protect Racism Democratic Harm

Author:Mario Bunge

“When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.”

Writing Different Witness Bearing Witness

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.”

Pet Monkeys Charlie

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.”

Important Natural Bears Happenings Climate Climate Change Enormous Witness Adaptation

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.”

Giving Important Lost Voice Animal Share Planets Including

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them.”

World Giving Years Bears Hundred Species Witness Landscape Fifty

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.”

World Looks Beautiful Rich Witness Weeping Bearing Witness

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.”

Ifs World Feels Made Feelings Natural Religious Empathy Connections Depth Natural World Religious Experience Deep Feeling

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.”

Art I Can Important Seems Results Happened Planets

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming