Morals Quotes

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

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.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

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

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.

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.

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.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

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.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

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.

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

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.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

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.

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.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

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

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.