We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoWho takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoReal morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoBecause morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoThe love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoExistentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.
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