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The higher the
building the lower the morals.
-- Noel Coward
1899-1973, British Writer
Modern
morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep
people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them
fighting drunk on bogey tales.
-- Aleister Crowley
1875-1947, British Occultist
Ordinary
morality is only for ordinary people.
-- Aleister Crowley
1875-1947, British Occultist
A set of rules
laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to
act if it was profitable.
-- Frank Dane
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Morals are in
all countries the result of legislation and government; they
are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
-- Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher
When we start
deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something
or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for
us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we
have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and
then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the
land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
-- Joan Didion
1934-, American Essayist
We moralize
among ruins.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
Moral codes
adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
-- William J. Durant
1885-1981, American
Historian, Essayist
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