Morality · Skopia

Quotes

49

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract · 1762

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals · 1887

★ 5.5

The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways · 1906

★ 5.0

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Books

16

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1866★ 9.6

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

1886★ 8.2

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1869★ 8.1

The Nicomachean Ethics

350 BC★ 7.6

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche

1887★ 7.3

Critique of Practical Reason

1788★ 7.1

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