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“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.”

Life Self Earth Heaven Sacrifice Century Morality Battle Sake Neighbor Ghost Self Sacrifice

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.”

“The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]”

“We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?”

Humans Different Self Character Law Political Sides Religious Principles Four Self Love Morality Philosophical Regard Sake Gods Will God Love Welfare Different Sides

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)”

Ifs Men Wells Self Hours Known Moral Sacrifice Morality Denial Holiness Resolution Judged Capability Well Known Chastity Habitual Self-denial

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.”

Firsts Two Self Action Values Interest Moral Principles Acceptance Morality Ethics Tests Our Actions Utility Self Interest

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.”

Needs Should Self Causes Interest Morality Ethics Corruption Interpretation Self Interest

Author:Peter Dunne

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”

Self Science Process Moral Morality Prove Ethics Accounts Species Superiors Combination Destroying Inferiors Unstable

Book:Voices from the Sky

Source: Voices from the Sky

“Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.”

Ifs Men Self Matter Time Waiting Ability Principles Learning Wise Minutes Becoming Discipline Morality Truth Is Self Discipline Preference Influential Being Wise

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.”

Knows Self Running Past Interest Race Morality Horse Posts Memorable Self Interest Ranting And Raving Punters

Author:Gough Whitlam

“I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good citizenship. It is too easy to say that a good shot is automatically a good man, but it would be equally incorrect to ignore the connection.”

Men Long Self Would Be Easy Morality Gun Shots Connections Essence Tendencies Ties Good Man Self Control Citizenship Good Citizen Good Citizenship Marksmanship

Author:Jeff Cooper

“All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?”

Life Should Humans Self Form Suffering Nature Morality Demand Standards Logic Assuming Notion Including Aliens Assumption Ignored Conform Alien Life

Author:Steve Perry

“I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.”

Men Should Self Reason Religion Turns Belief Interest Religious Clear Morality Understood Doctrine Reason Why Self Interest Religious Belief

Book:Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Source: Tocqueville: Democracy in America

“Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.”

Self Religion Evil Liberty Morality Roots Deception Altruism Self Deception

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.”

Knows Long Self Running Political Interest Pay Known Moral Economic Morality Economics Prosperity Conviction Collapse Long Runs Self Interest Builder Practicality

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.”

May Self Quality Self Esteem Morality Integrity Respect Dignity Rewards Esteem Self Respect Internals Phenomenon Quality Of Life Momentary Doing Right Havoc Advisors Payoff

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.”

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

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