Morals Quotes

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

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.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

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.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

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

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.