10 William Blake Quotes on Morality

William Blake quotes on morality

7. That the Jews assumed a right Exclusively to the benefits of God. will be a lasting witness against them. & the same will it be against Christians

19. Every Harlot was a Virgin once

24. The Goddess Fortune is the devils servant ready to Kiss any ones Arse.

67. Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

84. I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word said Had a peach from the tree, And still as a maid Enjoyed the lady.

105. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.

109. Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.

128. He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never bebeloved by men.

146. He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer: For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

157. It is not at all certain that a merely moral criticism of society may not be just as 'revolutionary' - and revolution, after all, means turning things upside down - as the politico-economic criticism which is fashionable at this moment. Blake was not a politician, but there is more understanding of the nature of capitalist society in a poem like 'I wander through each charter'd street' than in three-quarters of Socialist literature.