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, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
40 quotes about morals follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
John Galsworthy
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Confucius
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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 same footing as man.
Norma Shearer
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Aaron Hill
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
Elayne Boosler
I go home and my favorite news channel is Fox News. I think it was the values and morals that I have that led me to become a Republican.
Tim Nichols
Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.
Nancy Linn Desmond
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
Ambrosius Macrobius
It's a sad day for the 5-2 and the NYPD. He was humble. He had great morals. He was always a great guy.
Hector Lopez
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo Xiii
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
It was a hit because of the morals and humor of a great Midwestern guy.
Lee Mendelson
The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'.
Clifford Longley
She's a woman of character and morals and discipline. You don't find a lot of that in people in modern times.
Brenda Strong
No shame, no humanity, no morals and no principles.
Prince Abdullah
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
It's cheating if your spouse considers it cheating. It's hard to give a blanket definition of cheating, because it's based on the morals and beliefs of the marriage. But what matters is: does your spouse consider it cheating?
Jenn Berman
I make up my own morals.
Jacob Pelton
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
Art Spander
It's basically a morality tale. It's all about morals and values. It just happens to be done topless.
Gina Gershon
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Lawrence Sterne
Discipline. Determination. Perseverance. My father had very high principles and high morals. Everything with him was black and white.
John Larranaga
He was very well liked, and he believed in the same morals and principles we all do here. You get a bond with someone like that that is very special.
Tom Killian
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
Noel Coward
I would be surprised if they were able to do that. In my interpretation I don't think Sidney's conduct has gotten to the level of violating the morals clause.
Scott Shapiro
Good morals and values start at home and a uniform won't change that.
Jamie Sawyer
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Jimmy Swaggart
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.