Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.”
Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965), p. 213.
1940s-1960s
Context: If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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