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.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.
Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.
The world is an inherently unfair place.
Morality is not merely different in different communities. Its level is not the same for all the component groups within the same community.
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
While intellectually you are giants, morally you are pygmies.
Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.
People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.
