Morals Quotes

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.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

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.

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

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.

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.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

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.

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

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.

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?

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

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.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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.

Good morals lead to good laws.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.