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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have read more
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of read more
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.
Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
