Measures are too often decided, not accordÂing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Oscar Wilde
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
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Antonio Gramsci
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Mencius
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing, ' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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Frank Herbert
More Quotes By James Madison
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.]
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.]
Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and government will both exist...
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance...
