#morals

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US! ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#vampire #morals

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. ↗

— Herman Melville

#depression #negativity #morals

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. ↗

— Aristotle

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ↗

— Mark Twain

#man #recovery #right #wisdom #wrong

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#government #morals #ethics

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. ↗

— Anita Baker

#chance #drink #god #i #i believe

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. ↗

— Leon Kass

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others. ↗

— Perry Como

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