Individual Morality Quotes

• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Individuality, Ethics And Morals

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

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• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, And Love, Doe

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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Philosophy

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883 - 1891.

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• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Flow, Degrees

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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• It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And they ought to figure out how to claw back all this money. That is a given. In terms of additional laws, there are reasonable approaches to this, but I'd have to see what they are. I'm not a federal lawmaker.

  John Kasich

  Mean, Law, House

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

  Milton Friedman

  Men, Numbers, Spy

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Faith, Reality, Essentials

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• To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

  Jane Addams

  Pride, Self, Effort

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.6, University of Illinois Press

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• You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

  Peter McWilliams

  Government, Toilet Seat, Asking

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