Moral Criticism Quotes

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

His military experiences have been confined to shooting a fleeing Spaniard in the back on the slopes of Kettle Hill in Cuba.... No other conspicuous American public man would behave with such squalid selfishness.

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

Don't be shameless, Mr Blair. Don't be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticise anyone about the rules of the international community.

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

Let's be clear: Donald Trump is a lewd, lecherous lowlife.

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!

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

Knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of its [America's] inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they become aliens to this Kingdom.

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

I was roundly criticized for being in and around rock & roll music at its inception. It was the devil's music: it would make your teeth fall out and your hair turn blue, whatever the hell. You get through that.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.