“The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.” MenWorldLongHas BeensMadeWifeThis WorldTearsMoralityHusbandStandardsLaughedSympatheticDouble Standard Author:H. L. Mencken
“Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.” BelieveMadeIdeasSufferingCoursesActingMoralDevelopmentHabitMoralityDifficultyCustomsConceptionStrainHypothesisAdjustmentIndecisionHardenedAdjusting Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.” MadeDifferentValuesPathExpressionMoralityUnderstoodResponseSocialismEconomistEquationsPursuedDifferent PathsHayek Author:Ludwig von Mises