If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and noth...ing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of l...iving within their income.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; th...e other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty s...pace by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very s...uccessfully ruled by them as the policemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »