"If we cut up beasts simply because..." - Quote by C S Lewis
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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“Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.”
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
More on Ethics
“I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.”
“Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.”
“Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.”
More on Morality
“Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.”
“If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.”
“Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.”