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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Morality

 All art is immoral. 
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
 Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. 
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle. 
Anonymous
 If you are identified by your opinions — if that is the very basis of yourself — how can you change your mind? 
Fran Lebowitz (1950- )
 If you're anti-abortion and pro capital punishment, you are only arguing about the timing. 
Anonymous
 It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. 
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
 It's hard to feel morally superior to a person who gets up earlier than you do. 
Anonymous
 Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous; more dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. 
I mostri esistono, ma sono troppo pochi per essere veramente pericolosi; sono più pericolosi gli uomini comuni, i funzionari pronti a credere e ad obbedire senza discutere.
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
 Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told; religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. 
Anonymous
 Morality is the weakness of the mind. 
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
 Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. 
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
 No good deed goes unpunished. 
Clare Booth Luce (1903-1987)
 None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors; the records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. 
E.W. Howe (1853-1937)
 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
 The Moral Majority is neither. 
Anonymous
 The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. 
Confucius (551 BCE-479 BCE)
 Though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was. 
John Newton (1725-1807)
 True morality makes fun of morality. 
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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