Logo
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.

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Morality
category

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

Category:
Morality

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

Category:
Morality

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

Category:
Morality

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Morality

Random Quotes

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Criticism

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – George Eliot

Category:
good

Humility has no home in celebrity. Be humble in your direct dealings with people, but unafraid to trumpet your greatness to the public. – Nkrumah Farrar

Category:
Celebrity

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

Category:
Quotations