Mason Cooley Quotes

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.