Dynamics
The highest virtue is always against the law. (Emerson)
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. (Samuel Butler)
One unable to dance blames the unevenness of the floor. (Malay Proverb)
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honourable. (Max Lerner)
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. (Nietzsche)
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. (Rousseau)
If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. (Thornton Wilde)
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. (Julien Offroy de la Mettrie)
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (Shakespeare)
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. (Samuel Butler)
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality. (Pascal)
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone. (H L Mencken)
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. (Bertrand Russell)
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach. (Bertrand Russell)
The best moral virtues are those of which the vulgar are perhaps the best judges. (Lord Chesterfield)
Moral men have many children. (Japanese proverb)