Frankie Boyle Quotes

Bad company corrupts good character.

Politics ruins the character.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

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

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot…change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good, evil.

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.

And you shall take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous:

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality

There are no honorable rulers.

There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.

The corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of principles.