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“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.”

“The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.”

Men Firsts Wells Might Numbers Greater Security Politician Morality Benefits Ease Ambitious Reap

Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”

Religion Greater Morality Injustice Tolerable

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.”

World May Persons Greater Mankind Morality Beneficial Qualified Greater Good

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.”

Men Humans May Age Nations Numbers Race Greater Mankind He Man Morality Tragedy Human Society Present Time Hijacking

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.”

Believe Has Beens States Government Earth Law Heaven Nations United United States Greater Honesty Divine Morality Exercise Conflict Direct Institutions Purity Submit Abolish Banner Polygamy

Author:John Taylor

“There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.”

People Important Values Fall Culture Answers Views Greater Morality Degrees Wrong Answers

Book:The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values