#morality

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#morality #politics #wisdom #freedom

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. ↗

— Epictetus

#morality #freedom

I can't afford my principles. I borrow them from unimpeachable people and return them to undependable people. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #morality #principles #funny

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#inspirational #intellect #morality #inspirational

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#leadership #morality #right #righteousness #leadership

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #morality #religion #life

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#murder #life

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#individuality #insight #issues #learning #life

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #hypocrisy

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love? ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#morality #principles #friendship