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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

— Havelock Ellis

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

— Denis Diderot

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

— Jane Rule

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

— Oscar Wilde

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

— Roger Penrose

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

— John Berger

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

✗Opposing Perspectives

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

— Max Stirner