Never let your sense of morals
prevent you from doing what's right.
?Isaac Asimov
If your morals make you dreary,
depend on it , they are wrong.
?Robert Louis Stevenson
Good manners and good morals
are sworn friends and fast allies.
?C A Bartol
One may as well be asleep as to read
for anything but to improve his mind
and morals, and regulate his conduct.
?Sterne
When the sun comes up,
I have morals again.
?Elayne Boosler
The moral virtues, then, are produced in
us neither by nature nor against nature.
Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground
for their reception, but their complete
formation is the product of habit.
?Aristotle
I cannot believe that this country cannot
come together around some values what
these kids need is a moral life... the issue
is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is
how we reach these young people morally,
and what do we bring to them.
?Robert Coles
When we start deceiving ourselves into
thinking not that we want something or
need something, not that it is a pragmatic
necessity for us to have it, but that it is a
moral imperative that we have it, then
is when we join the fashionable madmen,
and then is when the thin whine of
hysteria is heard in the land, and then
is when we are in bad trouble.
?Joan Didion
Moral codes adjust themselves
to environmental conditions.
?William J. Durant
A man can do what he ought
to do; and when he says he cannot,
it is because he will not.
?Feoude
We may pretend that we're basically
moral people who make mistakes, but
the whole of history proves otherwise.
?Terry Hands
Every man, in his own opinion,
forms an exception to the
ordinary rules of morality.
?William Hazlitt
However great an evil immorality may be,
we must not forget that it is not without
its beneficial consequences. It is only
through extremes that men can arrive
at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
?Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Moral choices do not depend on
personal preference and private
decision but on right reason and,
I would add, divine order.
?Basil Hume
For morality life is a war, and
the service of the highest is
a sort of cosmic patriotism which
also calls for volunteers.
?William James
Morality is a venereal disease.
Its primary stage is called virtue;
its secondary stage, boredom;
its tertiary stage, syphilis.
?Karl Kraus
Morality is the theory that every h
uman act must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
?H. L. Mencken
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two
hours a day and then they think they're
morally right. That's when you
want to choke people, you know?
?Liam Neeson
The aim of morality is to give people a
standard of action and a motive to
work by which, they will not intensify
each person's selfishness,
but raise them up above it.
?Cecil J. Sharpe
The new so called morality has too
often the old immorality condoned.
?Lord Shawcross
The biggest threat to our well-being
is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
?Rick Shuman
Moral indignation in most cases is,
2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
?Vittorio De Sica
Mercy to living beings, self restraint,
truth, honesty, chastity and contentment,
right faith and knowledge, and austerity
are but the entourage of morality.
?Sila-Prabhrita
Don't be too moral. You may cheat
yourself out of much life so.
?Henry David Thoreau
Moral power is probably best when
it is not used. The less you
use it the more you have.
?Andrew Young