“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Morality
Thomas Carlyle on Conceit
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Humanity
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” Continue reading
Voltaire on Beliefs
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Continue reading
Denis Diderot on Morality
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.” Continue reading