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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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. – Denis Diderot

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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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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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