Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Related Morality in Europe today is herd-morality FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo... JAMES BALDWIN But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo... JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles b... THOMAS SOWELL I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of id... DAVID L. WOLPER It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea tha... SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER It's a sin only if it harms you BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible... MARK HOPKINS Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For... JOYCE CAROL OATES The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitut... D. H. LAWRENCE Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. MAHATMA GANDHI Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. ADAM WEISHAUPT Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of ... RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a... D.H. LAWRENCE One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. THOMAS JEFFERSON The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and invigoration. GRETEL EHRLICH Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality an... DADA BHAGWAN The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit... D. H. LAWRENCE Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is no... PENN JILLETTE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Fear is the mother of morality FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it... ABHIJIT NASKAR For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same... THOMAS CARLYLE The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to u... GEORGES BATAILLE Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found... EMILE DURKHEIM Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. THOMAS JEFFERSON Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ALBERT EINSTEIN Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. CHARLES DICKENS Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morali... JANE RULE I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is mi... THOMAS MOORE Morality cannot privilege one ethnic group, one religious belief, one sex--a rational morality has t... PZ MYERS Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than thei... PETRONIUS ARBITER All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them GEORGE BERNARD SHAW For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality ser... WILLIAM BENNETT If science could make a person understand the true significance of morality in human existence, - an... ABHIJIT NASKAR The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and... ALBERT EINSTEIN The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
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SOCRATES Anybody who writes science fiction is doing a morality play. When dealing with androids [Aliens] , t... LANCE HENRIKSEN Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often kn... HAVELOCK ELLIS At the end of the day a trial like this is a morality play. It is not just what happened, and who sa... MARK ZAUDERER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in wh... PETER DRUCKER The hope is for the final victory of monotheism, morality, peace and reconciliation, MOHAMMAD KHATAMI Morality is largely a matter of geography. ELBERT HUBBARD Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time. ROBIN DAY The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Relate it to what should happen; fuse it into the long morality play that began, really, in the Gard... WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be OSCAR WILDE Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also... 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APPLEGATE Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a hum... ABHIJIT NASKAR Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Moralit... MAHATMA GANDHI I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat t... NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to creat... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. MARIA EDGEWORTH Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property MARIA EDGEWORTH Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective t... ABHIJIT NASKAR But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and mor... 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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price . This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE