Morals Quotes

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very lon...

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to ...

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally...

WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someon...

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involve...

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you...

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

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation ...

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winsto...

Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one tra...

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism...

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

It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y...

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics it...

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal ...

He thanked God that she had been born and sheltered to such innocence. But he knew life, its foulnes...

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, ...

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, ...

Ah. Well, it stands for Freedom From Morality. We don't think healthy amorality happens naturally." ...

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are ...

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong...

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, relig...

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, im...

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

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

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve...

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, un...

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everythingthat Alice said; ‘there’s...

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the...

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care ...

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormou...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of...

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me ...

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!...

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians be...

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know...

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral fo...

The end must justify the means.

Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom ...

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice...

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust...

Politics have no relation to morals.

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those thing...

... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is ri...

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

SIR DANIEL was a large man, broad of shoulder...his eyes were rather small above the double pouches ...

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his bet...

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act li...

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significa...

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and rewar...

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being a...

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they...

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statu...

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of t...

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shou...

One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than abo...

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Gather close, and let us speak of nasty little shits. Oh, come now, we are no strangers to the vicio...

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of the...

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but m...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

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

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them,...

The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are wha...

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a p...

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in news...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is...

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take ser...

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should foll...

Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my aff...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize a...

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough...

By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e...

Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.

...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be bea...

Compassion is the basis of morality.