An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of…

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time…

— J Budziszewski

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality;…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

— Sydney J. Harris

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of…

— Milan Kundera

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

— Malcolm Bradbury

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming…

— Frederic Bastiat

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards…

— Billy Graham

“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also…

— George L. Kline

The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I…

— Matt Shea

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.…

— Judith Martin

The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power…

— Donald Trump

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

— Vernon Howard