Quotes on morality
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
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.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
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Llewelyn Powys Quotes
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Henry Graham Greene Quotes
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Thomas Hardy Quotes
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
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.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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Henry Adams Quotes