Metaethical Positions Quotes & Sayings

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do. — Josh Billings

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. — Michael Parenti

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants. — Katharine Anthony

The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way. — Nancy Kyes

I promise to stand by you, to hold you up when you're about to fall, and to always keep you safe. I never believed there was a girl out there for me. Until I met you. You changed everything. And I never want to live without you. I love you more than I ever thought possible. — J. Sterling

One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any longer thinks that ethical naturalism can be undermined in a single stroke by the open question argument, or that appeal to the descriptive semantics of moral discourse is sufficient to refute noncognitivism. — Russ Shafer-Landau

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process. — Frank Bruno

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government. — Bryant McGill

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation. — Debasish Mridha

Because having your story told, as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian or as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community ... is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling and inclusive representations . — Kerry Washington

Angleterre Hotel, — Masha Gessen

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me. — Joyce Tenneson

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short. — Anne Lamott

The United Nations has no business in our elections. — David Vitter

You love me?" I whispered. He turned slowly to me and the muscle in his jaw kept ticking until his eyes locked on mine. "You lost that guy, respect, you found the strength to carry on. Know this, Tabby, I lost you, it would be sixty years of goin' through the motions. I know that in my dick. I know it in my gut. I know it in my heart. I know it deep down in my goddamned soul. — Kristen Ashley