Morals Quotes
531 Morals quotes by 390 unique authors
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Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective,…
— Beau Willimon
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As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary…
— Michael Shermer
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Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
— Brandon Flowers
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The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to…
— Huston Smith
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Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
— David Harsanyi
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Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.
— Craig Thompson
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We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
— Dolly Parton
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
— Susan B. Anthony
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My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us.…
— Tim Howard
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Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the…
— Norma Shearer
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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
— Gerald F. Lieberman
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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
— William Gilbert
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Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
— Thomas Cochrane
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean…
— John Burns
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You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
— Joel Coen
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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
— Leon Kass
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something…
— Frances Wright
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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than…
— Gilbert White
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I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
— James Larkin
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The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
— Peter Stuyvesant
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
— Zebulon Pike
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