The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

E.m. Forster
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  1. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde

  2. The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned - Antonio Gramsci

  3. A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed. - Mencius

  4. Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  5. My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing, ' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. - Frank Herbert

More Quotes By E.m. Forster
  1. It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

  2. This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to...

  3. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very...

  4. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  5. Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

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