„It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.“

— H.P. Lovecraft

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„I think that’s unfair, Doctor. You certainly don’t expect a man to believe in things that run contrary to his good sense without offering him any reasonable explanation.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befal [sic] him must be from himself. He only can do himself any good or any harm. Nothing can be given to him or can taken from him but always there is a compensation..“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„[U]niversal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense…“
— Aristotle