417 quotes found
“Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "Churchill: "Would you...”
“The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.”
“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”
“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
“There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.”
“We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we ca...”
“But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state.""Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop in...”
“What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead of thinking when they were in high school. They decided to blow-off courses...”
“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual re...”
“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”
“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
“The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship...”
“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to thi...”
“To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.”
“Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne”
“The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesnt make them less good. But it also doesnt make the wrong less wrong.”
“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.”
“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”
“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.”
