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Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination o

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command. – Havelock Ellis

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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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

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