C. S. Lewis Quotes

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.