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"power corrupts. absolute power is kind of neat."
-john lehman, secretary of the navy, 1981-1987
The Sanity Inspector
>if anyone has any quotes on what morality is, please email them to me asap...
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which
are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles,
and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
--Martin Luther
Learn what a people glory in, and you may learn much of both
the theory and practice of their morals.
--James Martineau
Christian morality assumes to itself no merit--it sets up no
arrogant claim to God's favor--it pretends not to "open the gates of
heaven"; it is only the handmaid in conducting the Christian believer
in his road toward them.
--Bishop Mant
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead-reckoning--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance
we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
--Longfellow
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently
manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is
religion with its face toward the world.
--Tryon Edwards
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The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
Robert M. Wilson
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>if anyone has any quotes on what morality is, please email them to me
asap...
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals
and legislation.
-- Jeremy Bentham,
Bad company ruins good morals.
-- Bible, 'I Corinthians' 15:33
Eats first, morals after.
-- Bertolt Brecht,
Pickering: Have you no morals, man?
Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor
as me.
-- George Bernard Shaw, 'Pygmalion'
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
-- A. J. Ayer,
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy,
but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
-- Immanuel Kant,
Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial
decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche,
Graham J Weeks
in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and
there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches. -- Cicero
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social
customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards
cannot be ignored with impunity. -- James Dobson
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. -- David Hume in F A
Hayek, The Fatal Conceit.
This country has spent about 30 years trying very hard to prove that no one, not
even children, should be fettered by anyone else's idea of proper behavior. Now
we have no norms. Or at least none that we hold in common. Are we happy yet?
The Wall Street Journal, editorial, 1999, after 11 were murdered in the High
School , Littleton, Colorado.
Graham J Weeks
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"We are told by Moralists with the plainest faces that immorality
will spoil our looks."
--L. P. Smith
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Christopher Brown
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and
social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if
he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
~ Albert Einstein, quoted in "Einstein, History and Other Passions", by Gerald
Holton
"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral
commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in
terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The
moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
~ Ayn Rand, in Atlas Shrugged
"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do
not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach."
~ Bertrand Russell
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above
morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
~ George Bernard Shaw, in Man and Superman
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thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is
like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
~ Matt Cartmill
Michael Conover
>if anyone has any quotes on what morality is, please email
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What is morality, or ethics? It is a code of values to guide man's choices and
actions---the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of
his life. Ethics, as a science, deals with discovering and defining such a
code.
-Ayn Rand
_The Virtue Of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism_, 1961-1964
"The Objectivist Ethics", 1961
*A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
-John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand's, _Atlas Shrugged_, 1957
Part Three, "A is A", Chapter VII, "'This is John Galt Speaking'"
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy
yourself and live.
-ibid.
Ethics is nothing else but reverence for life. Reverence for life affords me
my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in
maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to
hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer
_Christendom_
"The Ethics of Reverence for Life"
---Michael
Michael Conover
>The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the
>foundation of morals and legislation.
> -- Jeremy Bentham,
I checked all of Bentham's works that are online, including _Introduction to
the Principles of Morals and Legislation_, and I didn't find that exact
wording. Bartleby, however has this:
"Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to
pronounce this sacred truth,--that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation --Bentham:
Works, vol. x. p. 142."
>Eats first, morals after.
> -- Bertolt Brecht,
Specifically, _The Threepenny Opera_, 1928
>Pickering: Have you no morals, man?
>Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you
>was as poor as me.
> -- George Bernard Shaw, 'Pygmalion'
Specifically, _Pygmalion_ was written in 1912, and this exchange is from Act
II, 251-252.
>No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority
>were divine.
> -- A. J. Ayer,
Specifically, from his "Essay on Humanism".
>Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make
>ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of
>happiness.
> -- Immanuel Kant,
Get ready for a *long* citation.
_The Critique of Practical Reason_, 1788
First Part, "Elements of Practical Reason"
Book II, "Dialiectic of Pure Practical Reason"
Chapter II, "Of the Dialectic of Pure Reason in Defining the
Conception of the 'Summum Bonum'"
V, "The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Practical
Reason"
Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, trans.
And in German:
Daher ist auch die Moral nicht eigentlich die Lehre, wie wir uns glücklich
machen, sondern wie wir der Glückseligkeit würdig werden sollen.
-Immanuel Kant
_Kritik der praktischen Vernunft_, 1788
Erster Teil, "Elementarlehre der reinen praktischen Vernunft"
Zweites Buch, "Dialektik der reinen praktischen Vernunft"
Zweites Hauptstück, "Von der Dialektik der reinen Vernunft
in Bestimmung des Begriffs vom höchsten Gut"
V, "Das Dasein Gottes, als ein Postulat der reinen praktischen
Vernunft"
>Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated.
>Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can
>restrain the heartless.
> -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Specifically, _Strength to Love_, 1963
>Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.
> -- Friedrich Nietzsche,
Specifically, _The Gay Science, "la gaya scienza", 1882
116, "The Herd-Instinct"
No translator, but this seems pretty straightforward.
And in German:
Moralität ist Heerden-Instinct im Einzelnen.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
_Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, "la gaya scienza"_, 1882
Drittes Buch
116, "Heerden-Instinct"
---Michael (phew)
William C Waterhouse
"Robert M. Wilson" <r...@island.net> writes:
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> -- Bible, 'I Corinthians' 15:33
This saying does of course appear there, but Paul was just quoting
it. It is an ancient "familiar quotation" from the playwright
Menander.
William C. Waterhouse
Penn State
Robert M. Wilson
William C Waterhouse wrote in message <80snbo$o...@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>...
>In article <80odf...@enews3.newsguy.com>,
>"Robert M. Wilson" <r...@island.net> writes:
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>> Bad company ruins good morals.
>> -- Bible, 'I Corinthians' 15:33
>> ...
>
>This saying does of course appear there, but Paul was just quoting
>it. It is an ancient "familiar quotation" from the playwright
>Menander.
Thank you for the further information.
An oft repeated thought in various forms.
Actually, the KJV says:
"Evil communications corrupt good manners."
The NEB:
"Bad company is the ruin of good character."
Other translations vary.
*King Henry IV, 1*:
"Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me."
The *Twelve Good Rules* of Charles I included , "Keep no bad company."
Frank Lynch
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"The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling
half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head, and he picks it up and
buys victuals with it, the physical effect is good; but, with respect to me, the
action is very wrong. So, religious exercises, if not performed with an intention
to please God, avail us nothing. As our Savior says of those who perform them
from other motives, 'Verily they have their reward.'"
- Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)
Boswell: I described to him an impudent fellow from Scotland, who affected to be
a savage, and railed at all established systems. Johnson: "There is nothing
surprizing in this, Sir. He wants to make himself conspicuous. He would tumble in
a hogstye, as log as you looked at him and called to him to come out. But let
him alone, never mind him, and he'll soon give it over." Boswell: I added that
the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice.
Johnson: "Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying; and I
see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a
liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and
vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."
- Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)
Frank Lynch
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