morality is moral only when it is voluntary
– Lincoln Steffens
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- Follow your own morality but never forget to be kind. Kindness is always better than morality. – Debasish Mridha
- Don’t change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality. – Donald L Hicks
- If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans. – Armin Navabi
- A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. – GK Chesterton
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- A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. – Robert Higgs
- 30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press’d to it by compulsion. – John Smith
- Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power – in politics, the economy or the family. – Stefan Molyneux
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- The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. – Ayn Rand
- Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent. – Billy Graham
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- Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
- There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena – Friedrich Nietzsche
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
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