Bones Quote by George Orwell

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt to the bones.' 'Well then, I…

— George Orwell

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

— Anonymous

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

— Gilbert Parker

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

— James Murray Mason

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

— Elbridge Gerry

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but…

— James Davison Hunter

How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of…

— Smith Wigglesworth

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my…

— Daniel Berrigan

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

— Thomas Jefferson

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine