Morals Quotes · Page 12

“A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Poverty of character is not a personality flaw,its is the bankruptcy of morals”

— Bluenscottish

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

— Jimmy Swaggart

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

— Khushwant Singh

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

— Isaac Asimov

There are some things that money just can't buy. Like manners, morals and integrity.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“people outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions—and…

— Matthew Quick

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

— Marina Abramovic

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we…

— Susan Sontag

A girl should look more into a guy's morals and values beside just thinking if he's hott then he has to be…

— Justin Bates

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what…

— William Alexander Percy

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.

— Perry Como

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,…

— Sufjan Stevens

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus…

— Shannon L. Alder

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First…

— Said Nursi

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive…

— Anna Salter

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second…

— John Green

“People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

— William Gurnall

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

— David Hume

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

I think I embody the values of morals that my parents and life experiences have given me.

— Jason Kelce

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Aaron Hill

“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

— Oscar Wilde

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

— Auguste Comte

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

— Jeremy Bentham

“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“Easy' is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.”

— Nancy Linn-Desmond

“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.”

— Barack Obama

Mathematics is always going to lead you to a higher truth. never memorize yourself with the weaker assumptions of lesser morals

— Carlin Whisler

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

— James Martineau