Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.

Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.

I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in read more

I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . read more

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality?
Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.

I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age read more

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.