“It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.” — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Tajiri bila maskini ni maskini na bila tajiri maskini ni tajiri. Tajiri akiwa na maadili, maskini atakuwa tajiri.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are… — Ian Buruma 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
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
“Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“If there is but one criterion of morals, but one archetype for man, women appear to be suspended by destiny, according to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image