Essays on the Moral Concepts Quotes

“The horsebreaker's art would be easy if one could turn horses into chargers by definition.”
― R M Hare, Essays on the Moral Concepts

“It is not that we can deduce statements of the form 'I ought always to, etc.', from statements describing what sort of person I am. This would be to offend against Hume's Law. 2 It is rather that to have moral principles of a certain kind is to be a certain kind of person.”
― R M Hare, Essays on the Moral Concepts