#morality

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. ↗

— Marc Maron

#induced #morality #relics #surveillance

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. ↗

— William Masters

#dimension #does #establish #itself #moral

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better time #having #immorality #morality #those

Honor is simply the morality of superior men. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#honor #morality #simply #superior

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#either #every #human #morality #must

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#always #console #ignorance #knowledge #me