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"You know the Puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell"
James Young, Musician
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power"
William Henry Harrison, President
"Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?"
Kerry Thornley, Philosopher
"We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells"
William Taylor, Writer
"There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living"
David Starr Jordan, Writer
"Customs form us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs are consequences of our place of birth"
Aaron Hill, Poet
"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans"
Gary L. Francione, Educator
"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart"
Joseph Cook, Politician
"As long as man eats animals, how can cruelty to animals be removed?"
Morarji Desai, Politician
"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme"
Irvine Welsh, Novelist
"Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another"
Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher
"When you do bad things, bad things happen to you"
Farrah Fawcett, Actress
"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable"
Robin Day, Journalist
"To live without evil belongs only to the gods"
Sophocles, Author
"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us"
Sophocles, Author
"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in"
Voltaire, Writer
"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains"
Cicero, Philosopher
"No obligation to do the impossible is binding"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Honor is the reward of virtue"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Honor is simply the morality of superior men"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right"
Ronald Reagan, President
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