Edward Dahlberg Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Machines

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

• Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Unattractive, Virtue, Our Time

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

• So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Perfect, Literature

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.138, U of Minnesota Press

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