#moral

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#law #morality #rules #freedom

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#halo #indignation #moral

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #idealist #into #make #me

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. ↗

— Tom Allen

#easily #harm #i #i think #moral

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ↗

— Martin Amis

#gives #moral #neutral #style

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

#morals #punishment #family

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #cigarettes #driving #immoral #other