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“...our ultimate moral principles can become so completely accepted by us, that we treat them, not as universal imperatives but as matters of fact; they have the same obstinate indubitability.”
― R. M. Hare, The Language of Morals

“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

“The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, whenever he has a feeling that he ought to do 'x', to say on this ground that he ought to do 'x'.”
― R. M. Hare, The Language of Morals

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