"I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery."
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"Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits."
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"Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness."
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"Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture."
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"Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be."
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"Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms."
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"Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale."
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"Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age."
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"Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives."
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"The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State."
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"It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman."
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"All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them."
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"The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car."
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"`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government."
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"We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners."
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"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice."
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"I say, break the law."
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"All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things."
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"An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit."
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"To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality."
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