As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed.… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“America will not wear chains while her daughters are virtuous, but corrupt their morals by a general depravity, believe me sir a… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My dream is to get rich enough from an absolutely soul-disintegrating campaign where I sell my morals to buy a house in… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If "love" was what made someone walk into the fray, despite knowing very well that it was wrong - if "love" made… — Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are… — Machiavelli Nicolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how… — Timothy F. Cahill Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things.… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.” — Heather Paxson Copy Share Image
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“[...] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A good woman should neither take offense nor blame herself for someone else's faults, but simply strive all the harder to do… — Heldris de Cornualles Copy Share Image
I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that… — J Hus Copy Share Image
“Public relations, as with all forms of branding and marketing is manipulation. This is why you have to have a firm ethic… — Isaac Mashman Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
It's sad when I see dudes at the bar that rather drink when I know they have newly born babies. I would… — Chad Garcia Copy Share Image
Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I live my life not to please my pastor or my church or fellow Christians. I live my life according to my… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
“The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image