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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ethics

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#law #morality #ethics

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#morality #psychology #ethics

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150) ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. ↗

— Peter Singer

#history #philosophy #ethics

But for this book we could not know right from wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with." - Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother ↗

— Liz Newman

#quotes-about-heartbreak #romance #women-s-fiction #women-s-strength #life

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#speech