Charlie Munger Quotes

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.