#moral

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

Elle est retrouvée! -Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil. Je devins un opéra fabuleux : je vis que tous les êtres ont une fatalité de bonheur : l'action n'est pas la vie, mais une façon de gâcher quelque force, un énervement. La morale est la faiblesse du cerveau. À chaque être, plusieurs autres vies me semblaient dues. Ce monsieur ne sait pas ce qu'il fait : il est un ange. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#life #morality #life

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental. ↗

— Richard Russo

#morality #life

The purpose of concentration should be well defined. In our routine life it may be for worldly gains and for increasing the knowledge, in moral sense it must be to improve the ethics of our life but in spiritual sense it is knowing one’s self ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #meditation #moral #philosophy #spiritual

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated. ↗

— Arthur F. Holmes

#example #morality #life

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life. ↗

— Émile Zola

#morality #paris #life

Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it. ↗

— John Gray

#morality #nietzsche #schopenhauer #straw-dogs #will

Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants. . . . ↗

— D. Todd Christofferson

#moral-conduct #men

If it is as evil to do lechery as the Bible and the Lord Himself tell us, then who is the more blameworthy: the one who instigates it, or the one who doesn't so much do it as suffer what men do to her? You know very well that it is the male who does it, and whoever says otherwise is wrong and is lying through his teeth, unless he has no teeth -- and would to God he hadn't. ↗

— Anonymous

#double-standards #gender #immorality #inequality #men

It's the love of right lures men to wrong. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#love