Morals Quotes

531 Morals quotes by 390 unique authors

When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,… — Thomas Jefferson
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the… — David Hasselhoff
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
Laws without morals are in vain. — Benjamin Franklin
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of… — Samuel Adams
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Mark Twain
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention… — Victor Garber
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn
As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man… — Bruce R. McConkie
What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery! — John Kendrick Bangs
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall… — David Hume
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent… — Margaret Oliphant
I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win. — Mike Candrea
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked. — Stephen Leacock
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure… — Unknown Author

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