A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
Friedrich NietzscheAs readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
Alberto ManguelTags: morals revenge romance fiction forgiveness readers repentance
Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything
that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral
of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.
Rachel CaineIf one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
ConfuciusFashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl LagerfeldTags: style women morality beauty manners morals creativity elegance immorality look chanel designer rebuild karl-lagerfeld
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
Ernest HemingwayTags: morals religion communism drink bohemianism
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Henry MillerTags: science morals nationalism religion ideals
But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
George Bernard ShawTags: liberty freedom morals rights
At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.
Paul GrahamTags: history ethics morals ideas beliefs relativism
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