I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
Philip PullmanTags: morality mary-malone
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. HeinleinTags: 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 WeilTags: reality morality ethics evil good
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Oscar WildeTags: morality philosophy
Conventionality is not morality.
Charlotte BrontëTags: 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 MillTags: 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 MillTags: 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 WildeYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Malcolm ForbesTags: 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 HuxleyTags: morality guilt absolution brooding remorse repentance wallowing wrongdoing
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