Counterparts Quote by Honore de Balzac

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the…

— Oscar Wilde

“It must, I think, be admitted that the evils of the world are due to moral defects quite as much as to lack of…

— Bertrand Russell

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that person, who…

— Ehsan Sehgal

“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited, and slothful,…

— C.S. Lewis

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

— Jonah Goldberg

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than…

— Laurence Sterne

What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of…

— Thomas Huxley

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,”

— Christina Baker Kline