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"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private"
Mary Astell, Writer
"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all"
Moliere, Playwright
"Of two evils, choose neither"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents"
Omar N. Bradley, Soldier
"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals"
David Hume, Philosopher
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny"
David Hume, Philosopher
"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it"
Don Marquis, Journalist
"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs"
Martin Heidegger, Philosopher
"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured"
Tacitus, Historian
"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies"
Tertullian, Author
"I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names"
Billy Sunday, Clergyman
"Going home must be like going to render an account"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder"
Tertullian, Author
"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism"
Emma Goldman, Activist
"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Conventionality is not morality"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles"
Xun Kuang, Philosopher
"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned"
Xun Kuang, Philosopher
"If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform"
Mary Wilson Little, Writer
"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading"
John Updike, Novelist
"It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author
"Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake"
Dean Acheson, Statesman
"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
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