“The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.”
J. Irwin Miller
Tags: Advantage | Characterizes | Comfortable | Course | Cynical | Decline | Exceptions | Manners | Money | More | Ought | Our | Personal | Pursuit | Restraint | Shame | Than | Times | Without
55% of people like this quote
J. Irwin Miller
Author details
Related authors
Other J. Irwin Miller Quotes
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
J. Irwin Miller
56% of people like this quote
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. Irwin Miller
55% of people like this quote
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
J. Irwin Miller
55% of people like this quote
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller
54% of people like this quote