#oral

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

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#because #disadvantage #electoral #everyone #freezes

You can't legislate morality. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#morality #you

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#done #i #lost #moral #moral compass

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution. ↗

— Van Jones

#communities #corners #down #first #get

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

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#community #conscience #correlation #economically #empowered

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#desirable #dynamism #extremely #future #general