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Letter "M" » Morality
«Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
acceptable, destructive, disengagement, justification, personally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, socially, The Service
«Never will you see your wrong, when you always see that you?re right.»
«Moral principle is the foundation of law.»
Author: Ronald D. Dworkin
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Morality,
Principles
| Keywords:
foundation, moral principle, The Foundation
«Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.»
«Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people»
«Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Bravery,
Habit,
Morality
| Keywords:
moral excellence, temperate
«Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain»
«Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Morality,
Wit
| Keywords:
ostentatious, tumid
«Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?»
«Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Feelings,
Morality
| Keywords:
combinations, risked
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