417 quotes found
“Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood.”
“I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swall...”
“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from ...”
“That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder.”
“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
“Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill”
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words”
“Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.”
“Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process of acceptance and observance. You simply could not create your own mora...”
“There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.”
“Morality is all right, but what about dividends?”
“We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some enlightened common sense. Otherwise, we'll never have t...”
“The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage.”
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life and being successful.”
“Authority is not a substitute for truth.”
“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.”
“Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.”
“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fea...”
“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.”
