Moral Flaw Quotes

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

Most people think that there is a monarchy, where God is the king and we are the subjects, and the subjects are inferior to this invisible king. But not only are we inferior, we are also stained by sin, and therefore, untrustworthy.

There are bad preppies and bad priests and bad humanitarians. Any group can have its bad apple.

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.