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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the...more

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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.

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Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

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Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society

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Education should aim at destroying free will so thatpupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughoutthe rest of their lives of thinking or acting ot...more

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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

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I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to ...more

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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe...more

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When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite ...more

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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human...more

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The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have pr...more