Ben Jonson Quotes

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Nobody can negate the fact that there is a section - not only in media but in every field - which indulge in wrong things.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

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

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

He has honored & salaried almost every villain he could find.

Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal …. There is too much corruption even at this infant stage of our republic. Virtue is not in fashion. Vice is not infamous.

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

... a sensual and depraved people in our midst.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

Vice is its own reward.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.