417 quotes found
“An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
“An improper mind is a perpetual feast.”
“Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.”
“In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.”
“It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.”
“Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.”
“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.”
“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.”
“Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.”
“The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.”
“The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.”
“The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.”
“To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description ...”
“If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should clos...”
“We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.”
“There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just about top of the class.”
“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.”
“No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.”
“It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”
