Morals Quotes

531 Morals quotes by 390 unique authors

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness,… — Elwyn Brooks White
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You… — Amy Tan
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. — Michael Shermer
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Robert A. Heinlein
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. — George R. R. Martin
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of… — Iris Murdoch
Morals are a luxury of the rich. — George Bernard Shaw
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group… — Eleanor Roosevelt
I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be… — James Patterson
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings.… — Louis Sachar
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their… — Bertrand Russell
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that… — Oscar Wilde
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… — C.S. Lewis
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in… — E. M. Forster
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to… — Oscar Wilde
The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant… — John Steinbeck
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember,… — Loretta Chase

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