"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob."

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"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob."

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

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"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

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"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

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"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

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"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."

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"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins."

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"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."

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"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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"A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

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"Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

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"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."

Freda Adler, American Educator

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