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

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“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

“If I should be so foolish as to hold ethics as the ignorance of a generation long passed, my life will pass in the ignorance of a generation that handed me what was genius.”

God Values Jesus Ignorance Morality Ethics Morals Biblical Generation

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stabbing a knife in someone's throat is clearly "wrong". Doesn't matter if that "someone" is furred, feathered, scaled or a smooth skinned biped. Violently ending the life of someone who does not wish to die, will go against the conscience of all who have not been desensitised to the act..”

Violence Murder Killing Vegan Morals Animals Veganism

Author:Mango Wodzak

“I do not find human nature either wicked or good, I find it driven forward by the same inevitable laws as the tides and the constellations”

Morality Good And Evil Morals

Book:Confessions of Two Brothers

Source: Confessions of Two Brothers

“A problem of recent times is that we do not have a set of values by which we can live. If we are to live well and be reasonably happy, we have to have an idea of who we are and where we are going. There must be rules to guide us. Tsu gv wa lo di i to the Cherokee means a definite standard by which to live, even when the values of others change by the hour. Without it, we are rafts on a high tide with no direction and no control. If the standard is missing we go with whatever comes along. Even if rules are self-made and are late in coming, if they come at all, it is worth the effort. And if we hold to them with a passion, they will be worth whatever we had to do, whatever we have to give up, to follow.”

Values Guidance Morals Rules

Book:A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations

Source: A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations

“If you are fighting a cause and adapting to thinking that does not support your values, morals, family, or country, you will just become enslaved to the ideology rather than bringing liberation that frees many.”

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Book:What Makes You Great?

Source: What Makes You Great?