ethics

"The only Real Control is the discipline of the senses to abstain from indulgence in low desires, which alone ensures absolute purity of character."

"The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil."

"Lippmann, Walter . A Preface to Morals. Transaction Publishers (reprint."

"A Christianity split into a diversity of ecclesiastical streams, the dualism implicit within its political agenda – nation-forming on the one side, universalism on the other was further accentuated. T…"

"Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set so…"

"The integrity of China was more important than in Tiananmen Square."

"She had an exasperating feeling that there was a principle somewhere that she had missed; a principle which once grasped would make the whole thing as clear as daylight. But if there was it continued …"

"We have the right to conclude from this that syndicalist violence, perpetrated in the course of strikes by proletarians who desire the overthrow of the State, must not be confused with the acts of sav…"

"Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor."

"Abu Hurayra said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was asked about the things most likely to bring people into the Garden . He said, 'Fearful awareness of Allah and go…"

"When you think about it, even little kids can draw the face of Spider-Man. But no one can really draw Bumblebee from Transformers. We've deliberately chosen these designs so even little kids can take …"

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country."

"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 c…"

"U.S. imperialism will be compelled to withdraw its troops, and to allow the people of Vietnam to settle their national affairs as they wish. Victory for the heroic people of Vietnam in their unwaverin…"

"“books 2 to 7 … have been ordered according to the increasing number of hymns per book” ... “very important principle in their arrangement."

"It is obvious to anyone who thinks dialectically that actions which are ostensibly the same kind of actions can be right or wrong depending on the circumstances -- or rather, on the cause in the name …"

"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."

"His concept of the anal character as one that has not reached maturity is in fact a sharp criticism of bourgeois society of the nineteenth century, in which the qualities of the anal character constit…"

"Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?"

"Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty."