George F. Will Quotes

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.