417 quotes found
“The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything”
“On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,--"But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do no...”
“It is often easier to fight for ones principles than it is to live up to them.”
“This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!”
“These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never ch...”
“There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could say, "Welcome to civilization!" He could have said, "Laugh this one off!" He might have said, "Fet...”
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has always existed. It was not an invention of the philosophers ...”
“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives ...”
“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered ...”
“...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a for...”
“Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.”
“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.”
“Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps ones hands free of another mans throat, free of ones own. These machines have all, a...”
“Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.”
“Morality negates life.”
“Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.”
“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”
“There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. Ill ha...”
“one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.”
