“Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.” ShowsLife IsStepsMediaWalkingEthicsSnowLife Is LikeEvery Step Author:Jess Lair
“Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.” WorldPhilosophySpiritualLife IsAliveEthicsConnectionsProfoundBoundsDisappearRepresentingTotalitySpiritual Connection Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.” IfsWantGivingMindMayUseLife IsChoicesShareMinesDemandEthicsFleshPriestsFactoriesCowsWombLegislatorsUsing MeCalvesUraniumFattening Author:Marge Piercy
“English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.” CountrySometimesLife IsEthicsHardyArcherCountry LifeChekhov Book:The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories Source: The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories
“If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.” IfsMeanSaidLife IsCitiesPrinciplesVirtueFiguresEthicsConstitutionVicesCharacteristicsBeing The BestHappy LifeImpediments Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle
“The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.” WaySeemsLife IsAnimalMoralClearEthicsClaimsStriveExtraordinaryBehaveMeaning Of LifeOrganizedGenesLiving ThingsOrganized ReligionAnimals In Nature Author:Bill Nye