The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Tags: morality human-nature survival moral survival-instinct
The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man.
James ThurberTags: moral further-fables-for-our-time the-human-being-and-the-dinosaur
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
Saul D. AlinskyTwelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George OrwellTags: moral
Só num mundo de cegos as coisas serão o que verdadeiramente são.
José SaramagoThe first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.
Ayn RandTags: moral
Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.
Oakley HallTags: wisdom moral sardonic practical cautionary
Kemurnian barangkali memang tak ditakdirkan untuk dunia yang tak kekal, tak tunggal, ini.
Goenawan MohamadTags: moral agama ideologi kepercayaan
sebuah tawa : suatu tanda kebebasan, suatu petunjuk kembalinya sifat human.
Goenawan MohamadTags: moral humaniora kepribadian
Ketidakjujuran adalah isyarat ketidakbebasan hati
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