Is Divorce Wrong? (1889)
Context: Marriages are made by men and women; not by society; not by the state; not by the church; not by supernatural beings. By this time we should know that nothing is moral that does not tend to the well-being of sentient beings; that nothing is virtuous the result of which is not good. We know now, if we know anything, that all the reasons for doing right, and all the reasons against doing wrong, are here in this world.
“We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.”
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
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American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inv… 1895–1983Related quotes
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
A Short History of England (1917)
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), p. 1; repeated twice more in the book