To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Moral theory Can vs. should Morality

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

A Short History of England

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "A Short History of England." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 20, Ignatius Press, 2002. Originally published by William Clowes and Sons, 1917.

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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.

Hugh Keough

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Time
1919 1910s 20th century
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Keough, Hugh. Quoted in Collier's. Feb. 1919.

Another quote about Moral theory

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

Jeremy Bentham

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Moral theory Economic inequality Inequality

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Jeremy Bentham
Language
English
Time
1795 1790s 18th century
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Bentham, Jeremy. Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation. London: J. Debrett, 1795.

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Bentham, Jeremy. "Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation." Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, edited by Werner Stark. Vol. 1, Routledge, 2003.

Another quote from 1917

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Civilization

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Sigmund Freud
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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Medium
Lecture
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Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.