Moral Interest

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:

    If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who’ve got them can pass on the contagion.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
    David Hume (1711–1776)