Deontologists Quotes & Sayings

The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving. — Jonathan Haidt

There are different kinds of predators. There are the kinds who target the weak. And there are those with more of a Dexter vibe who don't lose sleep if a child abuser has a hard time on the way to the station. — Jonathan Maberry

A blameless heart is without bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love my girlfriend, don't get me wrong. I truly love this woman, but I have the ability to have sex without any emotional involvement. It's a gift. — Adam Ferrara

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you. — Danielle LaPorte

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves. — Franz Grillparzer

She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it ... — Thomm Quackenbush

it's beauty sleep for the beautiful," he says, looking at me, "but there's no rest for the wicked. — J.M. Darhower