“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
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“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised”
“Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life”
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others”
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts”
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country”
“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women”
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis”
“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.”
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral”
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”