#moral

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea

Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural. ↗

— Henri Gregoire

#monsters #moral #natural #order

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#equivalent #moral #skips #viewer #who

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. ↗

— Rex Stout

#moral #moral sense #sense #standards #strong

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage. ↗

— Ed Case

#etc #marriage #moral #my own #oppose

Books follow morals, and not morals books. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#follow #morals