#moral

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#self-control #men

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#morality #objective-truth #standards #men

We did an evil thing, father." "What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible. ↗

— Daniel Abraham

#morality #war #men

If I am disobeying orders, I'd rather be with God against men than with men against God. ↗

— Aristides de Souza Mendes do Amaral e Abranches

#men

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#images #money #moral-decay #status #values

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#honesty #money #morality #money

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. ↗

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#philosophy #change

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwinism #evolution #infidelity #macro-evolution #macroevolution

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability. ↗

— David McCullough

#morality #technology #nature

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. "I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately. "But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked." "What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded. "Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#morals #spiders #nature