The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the 'wrong' beliefs.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the 'wrong' beliefs.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Individual reason can still guide moral progress.
The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would …
There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbour and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less that which the smallest functionaire pos…
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between…
The inevitable hypocrisy, which is associated with the all the collective activities of the human race, springs chiefly from this source: that individuals have…