- I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.
― Tommy Douglas - Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
― H. L. Mencken - In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
― Will Self - Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
― Victor Hugo - It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
― Albert Einstein - Live so that your friends can defend you but will not have to.
― Anonymous - Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
― Thomas Jefferson - Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
― Jane Rule - Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
― Karl Kraus - Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
― Friedrich Nietzsche - Morality is not practical, Morality is a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books.
― Robert Bolt - Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
― H. L. Mencken - Morality is the weakness of the brain.
― Arthur Rimbaud - Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
― Oscar Wilde - Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
― Isaac Asimov - No moral system can rest solely on authority.
― A. J. Ayer - Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
― St. Thomas Aquinas - Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
― Laurence Sterne - Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
― Frank Herbert
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