Banishment Quote by Terre Thaemlitz

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

— Anonymous

When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how close by…

— Joshua Greene

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

— Peter Milligan

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They do things…

— Liz W. Garcia

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist…

— Leon Blum

It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant people the…

— Terre Thaemlitz

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“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

I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if…

— Stephen Chbosky

“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

— Robert A. Heinlein