Quotes About Morality

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Be good and you will be lonely.

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.