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“Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.”
“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is ...”
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his own heart, in the anatomically correct position, then paused and moved his hand up t...”
“What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.”
“Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal languagea pointless and isolating task if there is no commu...”
“But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the...”
“It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good upbringing that we are really worse than those...”
“Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.”
“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might reall...”
“All religions are true but none are literal.”
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”
“Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”
“Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. "I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, ...”
“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict ...”
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, t...”
“Passion was the antithesis of morality.”
“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ide...”
“If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I dont hate god to someone whos expressed hatred for atheists, scientists, feminists, gays, intellectuals,...”
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women.”
“If you go back through history, youll find that the people who have been most eager to rule, to make the laws, to enforce the laws and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here o...”
