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

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. – Havelock Ellis

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

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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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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

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

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