H. L. A. Hart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Money has no moral opinions.
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed
There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

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