“. . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“To constantly edit our ethics in order to keep pace with our preferences is to edit ethics that don’t exist in order… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
“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
“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
Government and the press must stop making tax avoidance about morality; it assumes everyone has the same morals. It's a civic/social responsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony… — William James Copy Share Image
I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings and injure the morals of the community… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
“Your so-called morals are nothing but an excuse to act better than the rest of us. To treat us as though we… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
What is our civic duty when our system of civics is broken? When our politics are so partisan that we put our… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
“One cannot be given too many or too frequent warnings against this negligent or even base way of thinking, that seeks out… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule,… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first...Why can't we… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
Never choose the easy path, choose the one that has morals! It's YOUR life, live it! Be honest, follow your heart &… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it… — Anonymous 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
People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but… — Lupe Fiasco 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
“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
“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
“Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“The internet we know is full of places, languages, territories, and it’s an alternate world in itself. The strange thing is that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
