417 quotes found
“Morality is not respectability.”
“Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.”
“Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.”
“The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no ...”
“Morality is a private and costly luxury.”
“"Tut tut child " said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."”
“I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.”
“Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.”
“To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.”
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
“Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
“Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.”
“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unsta...”
“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict ...”
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties,...”
“Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the basement of this world.”
“First live to be ‘sincere’ then ‘morality’ will follow.”
