Permissibility In Ethics Quotes & Sayings

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible 'anarchy', why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person? — Murray N. Rothbard

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage. — Max Walker

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer. — Sam Wineburg

Our altruistic mind is the key to our happiness as individuals, families, nations, and as an international community. — Dalai Lama XIV

The mind is a basket ... if you put nothing in, you get nothing out. — Louis L'Amour

There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version. — George Eliot

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity. — Isaac Newton

Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife. — Barbara Longley