Moral Character Quotes

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.