Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. - Theodore Sturgeon
" "Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
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About Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, 26 February 1918 – 8 May 1985) was an American author of science fiction, essayist, and poet.
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Birth Name:
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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Ted
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E. Waldo Hunter
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Ted Sturgeon
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A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology, now had the others: philosophy and logic and love; sympathy, empathy, forbearance, unity, in the idea of their species rather than in their obedience; membership in harmony with all life everywhere.
A people with such feelings and their derived skills cannot be slaves. As the light burst upon them, there was only one concentration possible to each of them — to be free, and the accomplished feeling of being free. As each found it, he was an expert in freedom, and expert succeeded expert, transcended expert, until (in a moment) a billion and a half human souls had no greater skill than the talent of freedom.
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