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| Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, |
| Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~ Henry B. Adams, |
| Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. ~ Llewelyn Powys |
| Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ~ Thomas Hardy, |
| The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. ~ Michel de Montaigne |
| Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~ Havelock Ellis |
| The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~ Goethe |
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| The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. ~ Robert Brault |
| It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~ Graham Greene |
| Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, |