“You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.” NeedsMadeStillsBookSoulProgressWrittenMoralityEthicsDevilAbsolutesMajorityAncientGuidesIgnorantRationalCodeDamnNomadMorality And Ethics Author:Doug Graham
“In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.” PeopleNeedsGivingKindHappensOrderGrowsProgressGeniusInternetFairsAccessCodePoliteBrillianceZips Author:Augusten Burroughs
“The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.” MenHumansAnimalRaceExistenceDestinyProgressConditionsChangedMoralityAuthorityCodeHuman RaceGapsPermanenceSeparating Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.” KindHas BeensChristianLeftChurchMoralProgressDivineCodeSanctionsChristian ChurchLoopholes Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.” KindIdeasStepsProgressRiskInspiredHeavyCodeInvolvingEvery StepVariance Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist