#moral

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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

#am #because #break #everything #find

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

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

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

#directly #drives #existence #first #force

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

#any #being #compulsion #done #element

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

— Auberon Herbert

#committing #hands #his #man #moral

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

#government #hold #man #many #men

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

— Frank Herbert

#being #close #comes #morality #respect

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#character #great #high #moral #moral character

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. ↗

— Dee Hock

#best #body #cannot #heart #influence