“To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.” MeanUseMoralMoralitySurvivalEthicsGreedDescriptionAccurateImperativesInterdependenceHubrisMorality And Ethics Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...” ThinkingHandsFeetMoralitySurvivalEthicsAppreciateClaimsFoundationDeeperAidsNeighborTeethObjectivesNeverthelessAdaptationThyselfReproductionReferringIllusoryLove Thy NeighborHands And FeetAbove And BeyondDeeper Meaning Author:Michael Ruse
“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.” PeopleStillsPastPartyConsciousnessMilitaryDisciplineDemandSurvivalEthicsRegardFulfillmentSovietShortcomingsMilitary Discipline Author:Filipp Golikov
“Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksTwoEndsCareKidsDiesCoursesLeftParentFailingSurvivalEthicsBuiltTalesTwo ThingsFairyFrightenedFairy TaleLook At YourselfNobody Cares Author:Stephen King
“Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.” PeopleBelieveMightSurvivalEthicsDifficultyEthicalBelieve In GodDefiningSurvival Of The Fittest Author:Benjamin Carson
“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.” MenLifeFirstsSoulScienceAnimalProgressBehaviorSurvivalEthicsIntelligentInstinctPrimariesEthicalIngenuityEthical Behavior Author:Charlie Chaplin
“Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.” Has BeensValuesIndividualForceCausesCommunityDifferencesViewsPowerfulMoralTaughtSurvivalEthicsConnectionsSeparationOppressionVulnerableLiberationTemporarySuspicionPersonal PowerForgedArmistice Author:Audre Lorde
“Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.” ShouldHumansTodayEarthHumanityUnderstandingTeachProgressSurvivalEthicsFundamentalsSpeciesGenuineObjectivesHuman Species Author:Edgar Morin
“If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong -- not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck -- if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.” IfsThinkingFeelsHumansChildrenStepsBreakBirthMoralitySurvivalEthicsNecksFeminineRealisticUnwantedYoke Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places