A Quote by Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

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Immorality Morality New Often Old So-Called Too

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Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
British - Politician
February 4, 1902 - July 10, 2003

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D. H. Lawrence

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Trudie Styler

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Oscar Wilde

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

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H. L. Mencken

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Milan Kundera

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Peter Lewis Allen

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Sigmund Freud

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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John F. Kennedy

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

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