#morality

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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