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“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.”

Men Kind Has Beens Made Pain Interesting Moral Doubt Fool Angel Deny Obligation Could Have Been Most Interesting Immune Moral Obligation

Author:Mark Twain

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.”

Littles Pain Moral Physical Pain

Author:Mason Cooley

“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.”

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

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Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.”

“Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.”

Pain Lasts Moral Forgotten Physical Pain Chagrin Easily Forgotten

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.”

Mind Pain Nations Moral Teach Teaching Youth Praying England Occasions France Germany Spain I Pray Ingenious Holland All Occasions

Author:Lord Byron