Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
Fulton J. SheenTags: morality ethics philosophy christianity catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
Jodi PicoultI deny morality as I deny alchemy.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: morality alchemy immoralism
Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.
Noam ChomskyTags: morality wealth freedom responsibility privilege police moral-absolutism
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
Fulton J. SheenTags: happiness morality christianity religion church catholicism unhappiness discipline anti-religious imoral
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.
Theodor W. AdornoTags: morality evil inertia triviality
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Robert J. SawyerTags: morality evolution darwinism infidelity natural-selection adultery theft stealing survival-of-the-fittest macro-evolution macroevolution social-darwinism
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: truth honesty morality integrity confession
Why does IPCA use them if they’re evil?” he asked, confused.
“They aren’t evil. They aren’t even really immoral, per se. They’re amoral. They don’t operate on the same level that we do. For a faerie, the only thing that matters is what they want. That’s their good. Anything else is superfluous. So like how they kidnap people, not a big deal—they want the person, they take him. Or killing someone. If you live forever, how much does one mortal life matter in the scheme of things? When you exist outside time, cutting off the forty years a person has left is a non-issue. They don’t even notice.
Tags: morality faeries evie lend
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia WoolfTags: sexuality liberty empowerment gender women morality feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy double-standards encroachment dignity social-norms suppression chastitiy
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