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In the ocean
of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
-- James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet,
Critic, Editor
Might was the
measure of right.
-- F. L. Lucan
39-65, Roman Epic Poet
We know no
spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its
periodical fits of morality.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist
and Historian
Let the public
mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property,
liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will
be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to
exclude canker worms.
-- Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator
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The difference
between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter
regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he
has not been caught.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
Morality is
the theory that every human act must be either right or
wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
Time is the
great equalizer in the field of morals.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
In Los
Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then
they think they're morally right. That's when you want to
choke people, you know?
-- Liam Neeson
1952-, British-born American
Actor
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