Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys Category: Morality
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist Category: Morality
It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers Category: Morality
Morality is a private and costly luxury. – Henry B. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Category: Morality
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. – Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Chastity
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle Category: Silence
