#morality

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If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness

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

You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation—by the Golden Dawn, or by anybody else? You are a genius, a sage, a giant among men. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been debating since antiquity—the mystery about which no two nations or tribes have ever agreed, and no two men or women have ever agreed, and no intelligent person has ever agreed totally with himself from one day to the next. You know the difference between right and wrong. I am overawed. I swoon. I figuratively kiss your feet.


Robert Anton Wilson


#morality #relativism #sarcasm #intelligence

There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, society, morals, animosity, preference, values, religion, circumstance, humor, perversity, honor, vengeance, jealousy, frustration...hundreds o' factors, from the past and in every present moment, as decides what some one person'll do in an individious situation.


Eve Forward


#good #good-vs-evil #morality #jealousy

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

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.


Ashly Lorenzana


#forced #honesty #identity #lies #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

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)


Dorothy L. Sayers


#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when people take intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides, sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. I meant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes the problem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approach is needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive. Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is no single answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there are simple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-white right-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like the world in Unwind.


Neal Shusterman


#dystopian #morality #sanctity-of-life #social-commentary #unwind