Moral Virtue

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or virtue:

“Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.... Advanced art today is no longer a cause—it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)

“My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)