Character Erosion Quotes

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances... [Slavery]

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Sometimes I feel that I'm living in a political era in which what I value most, character, is endangered; what I admire most, humanity, is devalued; and what I feel most sensitive about, privacy, is denied.

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.