"You can't keep a juvenile moral institution..." - Quote by Mark Twain
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.
More by Mark Twain
More on Institutions
“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
“In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.”
“Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.”
More on Morality
“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”
“Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.”
“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.”