Moral Shortcomings Quotes

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Democracies are at least contemporarily fickle and heartless.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

My character is not flawless.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.

You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Bad's the best of us.

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.