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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: morality freedom law rules

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

Simone Weil

Stichwörter: reality morality ethics evil good

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: morality philosophy

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlotte Brontë

Stichwörter: morality

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: morality ethics action responsibility inaction injury

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: innocence morality abstinence characteristics commandments nobleness paganism precepts reaction

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: reading books morality

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Malcolm Forbes

Stichwörter: morality good measure nobility treat

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Aldous Huxley

Stichwörter: morality guilt absolution brooding remorse repentance wallowing wrongdoing