"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis."

Morality, Virtue, Boredom, Disease

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"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."

Beauty

"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."

Consequence

"The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test."

Society

"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."

Society

"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."

Opportunity

"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'"

Man

"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."

Nature

"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

Man

"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves."

Humor

"Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden."

Family