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“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”

Thinking Humans Littles Matter Whole Found Human Beings Atheism Morality Ethics Experience Doctrine Ethical Trash Psychoanalysis Agnosticism

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.”

Giving Humans May Human Beings Answers Liberty Speech Argument Claims Absolutes Believer Doctrine Urges Grants Freedom Of Speech Absolute Freedom

Book:Miscellany

Source: Miscellany

“By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.”

Humans Littles Energy Human Beings Leader Worship Hatred Doctrine Concrete Preaching Steel Outlets Surplus

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946

“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."”

“It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.”

Humans Has Beens Human Beings Animal Atheism Mankind And Love Regard Positive Atheism Accepted Doctrine Curious Paradox Human History Benevolence Representing

Book:Honoring the Self

Source: Honoring the Self

“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”

“Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.”

Firsts Humans Human Beings Ethics Structure Insight Doctrine Phrases Assumption Massive Engines Flash

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings