“You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.”
“So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. ”
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“That was morality ; things that made you disgusted afterwards. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement. What a lot of bilge I could think up at night. What rot ! I could hear Brett say it. What rot ! When you were with the English you got into the habit of using English expressions in your thinking.”
“Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”