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"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind"
Stanislaw Lec, Poet
"Once you don't vote your ideals... That has serious, undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad"
Charles Eames, Designer
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Intelligence is a moral category"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory?"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second"
John Steinbeck, Author
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand"
Bertolt Brecht, Poet
"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"Power without abuse loses its charm"
Paul Valery, Poet
"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows"
Paul Valery, Poet
"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak"
John Adams, President
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart"
John Dewey, Philosopher
"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
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