#moral

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone who’s expressed hatred for atheists, scientists, feminists, gays, intellectuals, and all other forms of infidels? ↗

— Lindsey Brown

#religion #religion

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

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