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“My soul must reach into the clouds and touch the beauty of madness.”

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Book:Moon Gypsy

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“I want to pluck the sun from the sky and set fire to the whole earth, the whole universe. I want to see all creation engulfed in flames. Everything must burn and burn forever. Especially morality. And democracy. I want to see the flesh of those creatures melting in front of me. I want to see all their corrupt bones and internal organs on fire.”

Democracy Fire Creation Morality Destruction Morals Burn

Book:The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

Source: The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“. . . language has been one of the first tools deployed in efforts to oppress others. Words are how we process the world, how we form our societies, how we codify our morals . . . All oppression in race, class, gender, ability, religion -- it all began with words.”

Language Words Oppression Morals

Book:So You Want to Talk About Race

Source: So You Want to Talk About Race

“Do not pay any attention to that gentleman. His morals are detestable, and he seeks only to lead you from the narrow path of virtue.”

Attention Virtue Morals

Book:The Magician

Source: The Magician

“Ethics, morals and values keep freedom from devolving into license. For license is greed unleashed. And we would be quite wise to remember that greed unleashed is certain to turn and kill the thing that unleashed it.”

Values Freedom Ethics Greed Selfishness Morals License Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.”

Values Ethics Selfish Morals Beliefs Convenience Self Centered Convictions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The issue for historians , then, is not whether we should make moral judgments, but how we can do so responsibly, by which I mean in such a way as to convince both the professionals and non-professionals who'll read our work that what we say makes sense.”

Morals Histiography

Book:The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

Source: The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“Where in the motion of the stars is morality? Does a lion stop in its tracks to weigh the moral options? Are the seas full of frothing morality, of a turbulent whirlpool of moral dilemmas? Does a shark pause to consider moral issues when it is hunting down a wounded porpoise? Where in the Periodic Table is morality? Which is the Moral Element? What is its atomic number?”

Nature Morality Morals Subjectivity Nietzsche Will To Power Slave Morality

Book:The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

Source: The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“When morals and values are absent, civilizations fall and collapse.”

Values Morals Civilizations Collapses

Author:Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“Owen, of course, was overlooking the fact that his fellow manufacturers were more concerned with their machines than with their workers because the former represented a heavy capital investment whereas the oversupply of unskilled presented no replacement problem. Only when industry must spend money in training its personnel do they become economically as important as machines.”

Politics History Ethics Reform Morals Utopian Socialism

Author:J Bronowski

“How often have I lifted my foot to take a peek at what I’m standing on, only to discover that there’s nothing there and that I’ve been confusing ‘falling’ with ‘standing.”

Values Support Ethics Standing Foundation Morals Falling Foot

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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