Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Morality

8 quotes

  1. What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.

  2. Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.

  3. There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

  4. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

  5. Duty cannot exist without faith.

  6. We moralise among ruins.

  7. London is a modern Babylon.

  8. They that touch pitch will be defiled.

    #257 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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