Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards it would be moral to get drunk.
Man must get his thoughts words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are hopefully more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
A mans moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.
I could say to you that I have done more good for my fellow man than you can ever hope to accomplish – but I will not say it because I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life. I will not say that the good of others was the purpose of my work – my own good was my purpose and I despise the man who surrenders his. I could say to you that you do not serve the public good – that nobodys good can be achieved at the price of human sacrifices – that when you violate the rights of one man you have violated the rights of all and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction. I could say that you that you will and can achieve nothing but universal devastation – as any looter must when he runs out of victims. I could say it but I wont. It is not your particular policy that I challenge but your moral premise.
When the sun comes up I have morals again.
Lets find out what everyone is doing and then stop everyone from doing it.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life As fear.
The more things a man is ashamed of the more respectable he is.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
It is always easier to fight for one?s principles than to live up to them.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality but morality touched by emotion.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing whats right.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards it would be moral to get drunk.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Man must get his thoughts words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are hopefully more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
A mans moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.
What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Increase of material comforts it may generally be laid down does not in any way conduce to moral growth.
Veracity is the heart of morality.
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
I could say to you that I have done more good for my fellow man than you can ever hope to accomplish – but I will not say it because I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life. I will not say that the good of others was the purpose of my work – my own good was my purpose and I despise the man who surrenders his. I could say to you that you do not serve the public good – that nobodys good can be achieved at the price of human sacrifices – that when you violate the rights of one man you have violated the rights of all and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction. I could say that you that you will and can achieve nothing but universal devastation – as any looter must when he runs out of victims. I could say it but I wont. It is not your particular policy that I challenge but your moral premise.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
It is often easier to fight for one?s principles than to live up to them.
A straight line is shortest in morals as well as in geometry.