Society Without Morals Quotes

#1. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

H.L. Mencken

#2. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

William Golding

#3. Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by the same token, no such thing as a purely private morality, for the morals of private citizens are public in effect, and are increasingly so.

Wendell Berry

#6. To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.

Auberon Herbert

#7. Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Kenzaburo Oe

#8. Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

Glenn Beck

#9. I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

Jason S. Hornsby

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

Kathy Acker

#18. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Joseph Lancaster

#20. The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

Helen Keller

#21. Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.''It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores

Marion Halligan

#23. A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

Ai Weiwei

#24. We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Kenzaburo Oe

#25. We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

J. Edgar Hoover

#27. It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Gore Vidal

#28. The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night
because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Dennis Prager

#30. I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#31. A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

Jack Gleeson