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Category: Manners and Ethics

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1. "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

Czeslaw Milosz, "Roadside Dog"

Other categories: Life and Death

2. "Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."

Charles J. C. Lyall

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

3. "The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."

Ernest Gellner

4. "Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Other categories: Life and Death

5. "Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Other categories: Peace and War

6. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

Other categories: God and Religion -:- Human

7. "Men give love to get sex, Women give sex to get love."

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Other categories: Love

8. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Marble Faun"

Other categories: Art and Culture

9. "Style is the image of character."

Edward Gibbon, "Memoirs of my Life"

10. "We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here."

Edward Abbey

11. "Manners are noises you don't make while eating soup."

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12. "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

Other categories: God and Religion

13. "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Other categories: Human

14. "Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow."

Roy Hattersley

Other categories: Various

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Good and Evil

16. "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

Woody Allen

Other categories: Various

17. "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Anita Brookner, "Hotel du Lac"

Other categories: Woman and Man

18. "Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Love -:- Various

19. "He preaches well that lives well."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Other categories: God and Religion

20. "Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."

John Barrymore

Other categories: Various

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21. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

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Other categories: Human -:- Various

22. "Association with women is the basis of good manners."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Woman and Man

23. "Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

William Hazlitt, "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time"

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

24. "What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."

Alfred North Whitehead

25. "The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?"

Judith Martin (Miss Manners), "Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly ..."

Other categories: Various

26. "The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter."

Fulton John Sheen, "Those Mysterious Priests"

Other categories: Human

27. "The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."

Peter De Vries

Other categories: Various

28. "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."

Albert Schweitzer

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Good and Evil

29. "Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know."

Titus Maccius Plautus, "The Comedy of Asses"

Other categories: Egoism

30. "Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there."

Mickey Friedman

Other categories: Various

31. "Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be."

Michael Josephson

Other categories: Good and Evil

32. "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."

William Makepeace Thackeray

33. "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Oscar Wilde

Other categories: Human

34. "Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

Coco Chanel, "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets"

Other categories: Various

35. "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Other categories: Richness and Money -:- Various

36. "Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee."

Mason Cooley

Other categories: Various

37. "The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."

Gloria Steinem

38. "To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

John Locke

Other categories: God and Religion

39. "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Other categories: Education

40. "Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

41. "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."

Lily Tomlin

Other categories: Various

42. "Valor is common but great souls are rare."

Bernard Joseph Saurin, "Spartacus"

Other categories: Various

43. "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

Will Rogers

Other categories: Various

44. "What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Edward Dahlberg, "Reasons of the Heart"

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Woman and Man

45. "Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."

Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

46. "Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle."

Darby Conley

47. "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

John Dryden

Other categories: Human

48. "Manners are love in a cool climate."

Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

Other categories: Love

49. "Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

Woody Allen

Other categories: Love

50. "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

Coco Chanel

Other categories: Various

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