Edmund Spenser Quotes

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

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

A secular worldview hostile to biblical values has overrun our culture and permeated our government.

We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

What once were vices are manners now.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.