#oral

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

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. ↗

— Lou Reed

#best #compass #else #i #idea

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax. ↗

— Bob Riley

#care #charge #christian #each #ethics

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

#beings #brain #fated #force #happiness

Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#morality #weakness

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#choice #consumers #effectively #enough #huge

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. ↗

— David Attenborough

#exterminate #moral #question #right #species

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. ↗