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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Writer

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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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My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

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Ferdinand Foch
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1914 1910s 20th century
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The common man Morality

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Genealogy of Morals
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Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1887 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 1.

Another quote from 1917

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

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Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.