“The ascetic morality is a negative morality. And strictly, what is important for a man is not to die, whether he sins or not.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IV : The Essence of Catholicism
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“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“politics without morality is close to sin”
Verbatim Remarks by H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. http://afghanembassy.ca/public-affairs-afghanistan-embassy-canada-ottawa/speeches-afghanistan-embassy-canada-ottawa/content-folder/2006/articles/April-2006.html(April 2006)
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“Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 63, Ch. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=UZeJuLvNq80C&q="Intolerance+is+the+besetting+sin+of+moral+fervour"&pg=PA50#v=onepage
Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 249
“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”
Said of Napoleon (1842), "Discours de réception a L'Académie Française prononcé le 21 Avril 1842" Oeuvres complètes, vol. IX, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=kIsdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=%22Il+%C3%A9tait+aussi+grand+qu%E2%80%99un+homme+puisse+l%E2%80%99%C3%AAtre+sans+la+vertu%22
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Il était aussi grand qu'un homme puisse l'être sans la vertu.
1840s
Letter to Princess Lieven (18 August 1828), reprinted in Guy Le Strange (ed.), Correspondence of Princess Lieven and Earl Grey. Volume I: 1824 to 1830 (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890), p. 130.
1820s
Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)
“No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Thought and Change (1964)