Society and the World

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality.

Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.