Moral Drift Quotes

Secularism has no central goal, it's just promoting endless relativism. That's why there is a huge moral drift in the country. Everybody is infallible except the Pope, if you like.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients, not the rest, so it's unlikely to be discovered. So my firm is better than the others." [Laughter] I'm not kidding. And he was a perfectly nice man. People just follow the crowd...Their mind just drifts off in a ghastly way.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

Unfortunately, in the entertainment field, sometimes you start believing your celebrity. You have a strong tendency to drift from the Lord, which I did. I did drift for a number of years.