Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
Morality binds and blinds.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.
