Don Herold Quotes

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

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

We are living in a sanctimonious age.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

All the devils respect virtue.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

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

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?