Morals Quotes

531 Morals quotes by 390 unique authors

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals — Jimmy Swaggart
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain't got… — Young Jeezy
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same — Zoltan Kodaly
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to… — Unknown Author
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes.… — Marvin Harris
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities… — Edward Burnett Tylor
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and… — Joseph Pulitzer
Books follow morals, and not morals books. — Theophile Gautier
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends… — Arthur Schopenhauer
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. — Bertrand Russell
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. — Kevin DeYoung
I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals… — Noel Gallagher
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not… — Christopher Dawson
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested… — Charles Alexander Eastman
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man… — James F. Cooper
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that… — Rudolf Rocker
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean… — Francis Schaeffer
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… — Francis Schaeffer
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce… — Pope Pius IX
Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals. — Anton Chekhov

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