“A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.”
“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.”
“Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.”
“No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
“There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.”
“A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.”
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
“Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.”
“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.”
“The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”
“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.”
“To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.”
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
“There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”
“A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.”
“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.”
“We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.”
“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
“For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”
“Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.”
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”