Chastity Quote by H. L. Mencken

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

— J. William Schickel

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a…

— Anonymous

“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us…

— Walker Percy

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

— Herbert Hoover

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy…

— C. S. Lewis

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion…

— Glen Cook

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

— Wes Fesler

Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives…

— William McIlvanney

Problem with the honest people in this era of dishonesty.

— Anonymous

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress…

— H. G. Wells

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity…

— Saint Francis de Sales