It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. [...] To say that one persons desires and fee… - John Stuart Mill

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own — are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture — is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…

The à priori presumption is in favour of freedom and impartiality.