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«The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Ethics,
Happiness
| Keywords:
legislation, morals, The Foundation
«The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
back end, bringing, central, commonplace, conception, constitution, end point, morals, reflections, spite, studies, The central, The Turning Point, to advantage, turning point, work in
«The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
divorce, divorces, duties, morals, moral duty, observance, observances, owe, partners, population, renders, stricter, to each other
«The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
admired, Almost always, capitalism, earlier, fraud, ingenuity, larceny, morals, practiced, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers
«There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.»
«The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart»
«The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
decayed, hurts, morals, nations, teeth, tooth decay
«Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Ethics,
Time
| Keywords:
morals, The Field
«Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Morality,
Time
| Keywords:
morals, The Field
«The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Laughter,
Politics
| Keywords:
banquet, banqueting, banquets, commercial, morals, the United States, United States