Collective Morality Quotes

#1. The national government ... will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

Adolf Hitler

#2. There is no intrinsic tendency in gene pools for particular genes to increase or decrease in frequency. But when there is a systematic increase or decrease in the frequency with which we see a particular gene in a gene pool, that is precisely and exactly what we mean by evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#3. The trajectory of her scholastic progress to that point was spectacular and unprecedented, a model for all youth; it was also an invitation to fate to stick out a foot and trip her.

Abraham Verghese

#4. Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in.

Barry Unsworth

#5. A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

#6. It is really quite remarkable," Sarah said, "that the two of you
are sisters."
"I marvel at it every day," Iris said flatly.

Julia Quinn

#7. Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#8. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber

#9. I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

Drake

#10. If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.

William McDonough

#11. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

#12. I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.

Rodney Dangerfield

#13. Punishment is now unfashionable ... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz

#14. All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

A. E. Waite