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“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.”

Firsts States Values Term Written Particular Expression Morality Function Absolutes Justify Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Protective Propriety

Author:William O. Douglas

“Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.”

Doe Whole Term Morality Function Defined Meaningless Fulfilling

Book:The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

“Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”

Mother Mom Terrible Morality Function Victim Sacred Motherhood Criminals

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.”

States Atheism Morality Function

Author:Garrett Hardin

“Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.”

Ifs Thinking Should Humans Human Beings Morality Function Objectives Genes Deceived Binding Disinterested

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”

“I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.”

Should I Can Reason Desire Literature Pleasure Virtue Effects Objects Morality Function Intention Lust Etc No Reason Heroism Objects Of Desire

Author:Lionel

“No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.”

Individual Attention Influence Morality Function Pay Attention Features Participants

Author:George Soros

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”

“Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.”

Body Evil Grows Dying Morality Consequence Essence Function Strive Spread Good And Evil Exploitation Will Power Immorality Good Evil Beyond Good And Evil

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”

Mind Art Literature Moral Blood Morality Essentials Ethics Art Is Function Passionate Motherhood Implicit Didactic

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature