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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. – Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

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Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Spirochete because of its association with

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

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