61 quotes found
“Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.”
“Politics have no relation to morals.”
“Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.”
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
“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 char...”
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
“Of course it is, said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everythingthat Alice said; theres a large mustard-mine near here. And the moralof that is The more there is of mine, the less there i...”
“Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful ...”
“All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better an...”
“SIR DANIEL was a large man, broad of shoulder...his eyes were rather small above the double pouches and the look they fixed on Dalgliesh gave nothing away. Looking at his bland, unrevealing face sp...”
“Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discus...”
“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”
“Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!”
“Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.”
“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordia...”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
“Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.”
“Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.”
“Sometimes we punish our selves the most.”
