Character Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image ““Customs, morals--is there a difference?”” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Culture Customs Morals Society
“Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters: and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Ethics define what people ought to do; morals describe what people actually do. The difference between them is between the normal and the descriptive.” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Rather than offering a strict moral code to live by, popular culture today provides more of a moral posture.” — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion.” — Juliet Gael Copy Share Image
“What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the… — Noriko Ogiwara Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
