Robert Blair Quotes

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Bad company corrupts good character.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

Never will there be grief enough over the corruption of morals so extensively increasing and promoted by irreligious and obscene writings, theatrical spectacles and meretricious houses established almost everywhere; by other depraved arts and monstrous portents of every error disseminated in all directions; by the abominable impurities of all vices and crimes growing constantly and the deadly virus of unbelief and indifferentism spread far and wide; by contempt for ecclesiastical authority

In these days when apparently vice triumphs and virtue must be penalized, it may be well for all of us to fight the undertow by which our children may be dragged under and must of necessity perish.

What is seen being done by the many soon obtains the force of custom; while the affairs of men have scarcely ever been so well regulated that the better things pleased the majority. Therefore, the private vices of the many have often caused public error, or rather a general agreement on vices, which these good men now want to make law…

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.