A Quote by Judith Martin

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

Judith Martin

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Judith Martin
American - Author
Born: September 13, 1938

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Judith Martin

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

D. H. Lawrence

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Anne Stuart

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

Woodrow Wilson

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Sigmund Freud

We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.

Michael Pollan

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

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The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.