Moral Action

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or action:

“I have been maintaining that the meaning of the word ‘ought’ and other moral words is such that a person who uses them commits himself thereby to a universal rule. This is the thesis of universalizability.”
—Richard M. Hare (b. 1919)

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)