Quotes About Morals

#1. The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#3. I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Roger Spottiswoode

#4. The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Denis Diderot

#5. Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them.

Mark Twain

#6. Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

Tom Hodgkinson

#7. Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young. ("Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?" [1954], Y 196)

S.T. Joshi

#8. Religion works only if it teaches love and morals.

Brenda Kay Winters

#9. Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

Jim DeMint

#10. The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Alfred North Whitehead

#11. The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Will Durant

#12. We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.

Edward Snowden

#13. Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

Victor Garber

#14. France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Mark Twain

#15. Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Charles Bukowski

#17. If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.

Jonathan Haidt

#18. I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

Kevin Brockmeier

#19. Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Benjamin Whichcote

#20. Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

George R R Martin

#21. I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

Mike Candrea

#22. Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

Joseph Lancaster

#23. In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

Robin Sacredfire

#24. Unlike the first two Critiques, which ground the doctrinal metaphysical systems of natural science and morals, the Critique of Judgment has no specific metaphysical application. It deals with the harmony of the cognitive faculties and examines the conditions for the systematization of all knowledge.

Anonymous

#25. ...if you want someone badly enough, morals (and certainly professionalism) don't come into it. You'll do anything to have them.

Paula Hawkins

#26. [J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.

John Adams

#27. The church is not in the morals business. The world is in the morals business, quite rightfully; and it has done a fine job of it, all things considered.

Robert Farrar Capon

#28. As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

Josh Billings

#29. The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

Samuel Smiles

#30. Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Herbert Hoover

#31. When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise.

Mohammad Rafiq Teli

#32. It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Margaret Oliphant

#33. I've never begged a man to take me. That I'm doing it now is a sure sign that I'm losing my morals in Montana.

J.C. Reed

#34. But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

Simone De Beauvoir

#35. Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

David Hume

#36. Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And ... the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

Daniel Webster

#37. First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

#38. I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Tinie Tempah

#39. Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Laozi

#40. Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

C.V. Wedgwood

#41. I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Bertrand Russell

#42. Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Bertrand Russell

#43. I've seen too many celebrities fall from their morals, and I wanna come up under that and be THAT girl that doesn't need a scandal to make herself look better.

Christina Grimmie

#44. He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

#45. Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties ... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

John Evelyn

#47. To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

#48. We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Dolly Parton

#49. [Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling ... [yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Harriet Martineau

#50. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

#51. No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Robert South

#52. Ethics and morals do, in reality, have a place in law - although not in jurisprudence. It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#53. My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.

Frank C. Lockwood

#55. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Bryant McGill

#56. Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

Eyden I.

#57. The world is changing; people's morals and standards are changing. The Bible stays the same, so should our morals, standard and convictions. Raise the standard, live the standard & be the standard!

Joe Joe Dawson

#58. Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

Flora Thompson

#59. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

#60. Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

David Harsanyi

#61. Typically in a world that has shunned goodness and morals, the villain is the hero.

J.C. Wickhart

#62. It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

Edmund Burke

#63. You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

Cybill Shepherd

#64. And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.

William Carlos Williams

#65. Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet " become conscious " of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#66. The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.

James F. Cooper

#67. The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.

Huston Smith

#68. Creeds, it was said, divided men; but at least morals united them.

G.K. Chesterton

#69. If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.

Chris Eigeman

#70. I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#71. Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

Junior Seau

#72. If you hate me it is because I have morals.

Philipp Meyer

#73. The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

Lawrence Reed

#74. They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

M.F. Moonzajer

#75. I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

Tippi Hedren

#76. Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen.

Amish Tripathi

#77. The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

James Martineau

#78. I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.

Cal Thomas

#79. That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

George Mason

#80. The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Mark Twain

#81. Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Robert A. Heinlein

#82. Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

#83. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#84. When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's ... on morals.

Thomas Hardy

#85. Just as there is no technical improvement that would not hurt someone, so there is no change in public taste or morals, even for the better, that would not hurt someone.

Henry Hazlitt

#86. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

Thomas Browne

#87. Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Edward Burnett Tylor

#88. Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [ ... ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

Richard Dawkins

#89. Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Mark Twain

#90. What about vampires?" He smiled bitterly. "We're all evil, love." "No," Sasha said softly. "Not you. You might have loose morals, but you are not evil.

Renee Rose

#91. Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

Jeffrey Tucker

#92. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Charles Bukowski

#93. The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.

Confucius

#94. Don't judge yourself by others' standards ... have your own. And don't get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

Berry Gordy

#95. Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#96. Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits ... it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.

Fisher Ames

#97. In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#98. Have we ever considered that Godly morals might be the precision-crafted keys that effortlessly turn the tumblers of life? And have we considered that anything else is something like a rough screwdriver trying to force a lock open?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#99. In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Anna Jameson

#100. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Baker