Amused Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Societies have debated the severity of punishment for vile acts over millennia, with complex moral arguments on both sides of the question. But citizens…

— Rohini Nilekani

“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives…

— Robert H. Jackson

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

— Bertrand Russell

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe,…

— Alexander Hamilton

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the…

— Louis Kronenberger

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this…

— Guido von List

“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently…

— Bertrand Russell

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

— Anonymous

“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which their impulses…

— Bertrand Russell

“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of…

— Clarence Darrow