Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reactio...
By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that...
Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the v...
The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.
Politics have no relation to morals.
The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.
Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.
The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!
... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves th...
There is no need to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial...
We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the thr...
He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's...
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
The government is ethics rape in perpetuity