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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

We agree that what is holy is loved by the Gods because it is holy, and not holy because it is loved by the gods.

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, even to murder, for the truth.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

But fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism - something it is like for the organism.

The way in which the man of genius rules is by persuading an efficient minority to coerce an indifferent and self-indulgent majority.

Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.

I worry about the worth of philosophy done by philosophers who have been trained in nothing else.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe -- that unless I believe, I should not understand.

Government has no other end but the preservation of property.

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The banality of evil.

God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.

Man is a useless passion.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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Language is a form of human reason and has its reasons which are unknown to man.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle.