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Morals Quotes by Mark Twain
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- 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 rather teach them…
- Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
- We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
- As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
- It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
- It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.
- The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
- 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 to eat. The…
- France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public…
- Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
More Morals Quotes
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the… — Annie Besant
- Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral… — Annie Besant
- I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. — Aneurin Bevan
- One should make morals judgements for oneself. — Kathryn Bigelow
- When the sun comes up, I have morals again. — Elayne Boosler
- Morals are private. Decency is public. — Rita Mae Brown
- I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's. — Barbara Bush
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton