#oral

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosophy #attitude

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #reading #writing #beauty

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#law #morality #rules #freedom

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#halo #indignation #moral

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #idealist #into #make #me

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. ↗

— Tom Allen

#easily #harm #i #i think #moral

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' ↗

— Woody Allen

#asked #contraception #girl #i #me