morality, n.Definitions

Morality is a matter of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Morality is a normative system of self-abasing, self-loathing, humility, that since the greeks has served the weak life-deniers. Morality is not some metaphysical human prerogative but forms out of an animal fear and the quest for power (it forms in custom which belongs also to animals).

Morality is not needed (as reported in 1900) since the Japanese have only to act according to the dictates of their hearts to do well.

Morality is a thing apart, quite dissociated from religion (as reported in 1906). It is the first item in the educational code.

Morality is (as reported in 1973) related to systems of obligation to family and social hierarchy, and not to God and a system of abstract principles.

Morality is a comfortable stance in that it represents a lapse from the austere dialectic of capitalism (catastrophe and progress together).