Addresses Quote by Jerry Garcia

“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and…

— Daniel Gilbert

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind;…

— Virginia Woolf

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

— Thomas Pogge

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

— Ilka Chase

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for…

— Albert Bandura

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be…

— Debbie Harry

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

“Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed…

— Winston Graham

“... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us.…

— Noam Chomsky

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

— Bret Stephens

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal…

— Kakuzō Okakura