Morals Quotes

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov)
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. View quote
Laurence Sterne
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. View quote
Thomas Hardy
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. View quote
Ernest Renan
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
For in politics, what can laws do without morals? View quote
Benjamin Franklin
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. View quote
Herbert Hoover
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. (Kenneth Clark)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. View quote
Denis Diderot
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. View quote
Denis Diderot
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. View quote
Havelock Ellis
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. View quote
Russell Baker
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. View quote
Barack Obama
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. View quote
Daniel Webster
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. View quote
Horace Mann
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct! (Theodore Sturgeon)
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. View quote
Walter Lippmann
We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. View quote
William Wordsworth
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. View quote
Mark Twain
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. View quote
Charles Bukowski