Assuming Quote by Edward Dahlberg

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance…

— Robert Wright

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

— Horace

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

— Ovid

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

— Stephen Fry

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with…

— Abraham Lincoln

We often condone the things we do and condemn the ones we don't.

— Obinwanne Nkem

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

— Plato

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

— Richard Steele

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our…

— Agnes Repplier

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon…

— Robertson Davies

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and…

— Gary L. Francione