Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty."
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Morality
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Fear is the mother of morality."
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
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"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
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"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
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"The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer."
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"Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong."
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"Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason."
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"Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised."
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"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary."
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"Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy."
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"What can laws do without morals?"
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"One can buy anything with money except morality."
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"Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code."
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"What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy."
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"Morality is truth in full bloom."
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"Morality begins at the point of a gun."
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"What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives."
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good."
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"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men."
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