Alexei Panshin Quote

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

Chapter 12 (p. 166). - Rite of Passage (1968)

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are...

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are...

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are...

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are...