Morals Quotes

531 Morals quotes by 390 unique authors

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe… — Thomas Mann
A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s… — William Gibson
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have… — Rachel Caine
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right… — H. L. Mencken
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will… — Confucius
You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged. — Richelle Mead
He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals. — Patricia Briggs
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy,… — Henry Miller
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels… — Oscar Wilde
I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person — Voltaire
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of… — Richard Dawkins
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and… — Karl Popper
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what… — Anita Shreve
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein
And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the… — John Green
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make… — Jodi Picoult
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way,… — D. H. Lawrence
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually… — Haruki Murakami
I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth.… — Eloisa James
Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you… — Christopher Nolan
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. — Khushwant Singh
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein

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