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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them. – Antonin Artaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character. – Wilhelm von Humboldt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. – Emma Goldman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. – E. M. Forster	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat. – John Selden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. – John Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. – Lord Samuel, "Romanes Lecture", 1947	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is the weakness of the mind. – Arthur Rimbaud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have, in fact, 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, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is herd instinct in the individual. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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