It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of ...the people, as the superstition of Morality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morality and its victim, the mother--what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glor...ified sacred function of motherhood?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser ...one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity.... So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find ...their Account in the Speculation of the Day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveal...s that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, hav...e they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »