#without

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant. ↗

— Max Weber

#morality-without-religion #oppression #politics #tyranny #religion

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#civilized #general #having #know #men

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#life #meaning #meaning-without-god #inspirational

Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We’re not supposed to have it handed to us. ↗

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#morality-without-religion #new-sincerity #pop-culture #change

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#entire #fools #group #minority #minority group

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#am #banker #calculating #feel #fortunately

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#blessed #did #go #had #healthy

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. ↗

— Rebecca West

#great #great man #james #james joyce #joyce

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#characters #complimentary #endeavor #fertilization #highest