#morality

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#any #based #been #corruption #former

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#decision #law #lovemaking #morality #our

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#corruption #forget #god #immorality #lead

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts. We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . . The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#moral #morality #survival #survival-instinct #family

You can't legislate morality. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#morality #you

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. ↗

— Donald Judd

#any #art #denial #general #i

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. ↗

— Donald Judd

#i #morality #suppose #want #well

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#any #character #conduct #consistent #could

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#here #his #ignorance #immorality #legion

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#follow #lust #morality #precede #prefers