David Suchet Quotes

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The upholders of Capitalism are dreamers and visionaries who, instead of doing good with evil intentions do evil with the best intentions.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

Eating people is wrong

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Swindlers and murderers never agree, for they practice distinct professions

America's conscience is bankrupt. She lost all conscience a long time ago. Uncle Sam has no conscience.

Next to the sin of murder comes the sin of sexual impurity.

Many people will automatically develop a sort of selective morality. They will have one set of ethics—the one they were taught as children and been used to all their lives—for judging their selves and their friends. They will have another, and a much lower one, for the President of the United States.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.