Failure Quote by Plutarch

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

— Storm Jameson

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

— E. M. Forster

“When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.”

— Charles W. Colson

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

— Quintilian

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

— Sigmund Freud

When a man sets to imitate another man but not his morals, then he have decided to add mess to the society.

— Terry Mark

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in…

— Henry Taylor

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

— Irving Babbitt

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a…

— Derek Blasberg