Henry Wiencek Quotes

Morals, not Art or Literature.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I think evil is very relative.

History is more interesting than most people think.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Life is essentially a question of values.

It's up to history to judge.

I think you can learn from history.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.