Moral Restrictions Quotes

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

The peculiar importance attached, at present, to adultery is quite irrational... Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.

Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty in areas of non-harmful conduct.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).