Morals Quotes
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? (Quote by - Liam Neeson)
Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt)
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. (Quote by - William J. Durant)
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Matters change and morals change; men remain. (Quote by - John Galsworthy)
If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous. (Quote by - Herrick Johnson)
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. (Quote by - Feoude)
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality. (Quote by - Sila-Prabhrita)
A world without morals is chaos. (Quote by - Raul Strempsky)
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. (Quote by - Lord Shawcross)
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. (Quote by - Basil Hume)
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. (Quote by - Terry Hands)
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals! (Quote by - Cicero)
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits. (Quote by - Pope Leo XIII)
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt)
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. (Quote by - William James)
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies. (Quote by - C A Bartol)
I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them. (Quote by - Robert Coles)
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy. (Quote by - Franklin Buchanan)
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
The higher the building the lower the morals. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. (Quote by - W S Gilbert)
My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders. (Quote by - Patrick Campbell)
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. (Quote by - Zoltan Kodaly)
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. (Quote by - Rick Shuman)
When the sun comes up, I have morals again. (Quote by - Elayne Boosler)
Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. (Quote by - Henry James)
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. (Quote by - Sterne)
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. (Quote by - Vittorio De Sica)
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it. (Quote by - Cecil J. Sharpe)
It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. (Quote by - Demi Moore)
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
