American people Quote by Gertrude Atherton

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

— Barbara Bush

We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.

— Nigel Hawthorne

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...

— Thomas Merton

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

— Charles Bukowski

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that a culture…

— Francis J. Beckwith

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

— Denis Diderot

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it…

— Barney Frank

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

— Lawrence Reed

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is…

— Charles Koch