Morals Quotes

531 Morals quotes by 390 unique authors

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far. — Alex Borstein
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped… — H. L. Mencken
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. — George Bernard Shaw
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their… — Charles Caleb Colton
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals… — Henry Ward Beecher
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. — Seneca the Younger
In morals, always do as others do; in art, never. — Jules Renard
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). — Thomas Browne
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .… — Francois Fenelon
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. — Joseph Addison
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
Matters change and morals change; men remain. — John Galsworthy
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. — Joseph Joubert
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards… — Demi Moore
If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a… — Herrick Johnson
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life… — Theodore Roosevelt
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts… — Alberto Manguel
Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor. — George Bernard Shaw
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to… — Jean de la Bruyere
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. — James Anthony Froude
Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone… — Matthew Simpson
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams

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