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“Civilization, especially if of the austerer sort, is auspicious to it. It folds itself in the mantle of respectability.”

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Book:Billy Budd and Other Tales

Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales

“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.”

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

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Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.”

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Author:John Kasich

“Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.”

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Author:Wendy Kaminer

“You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.”

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Author:Peter McWilliams

“By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.”

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Book:An economist's protest: columns in political economy

Source: An economist's protest: columns in political economy