Morals Quotes

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

Good, Government, Bad

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Aneurin Bevan

Politics, Interest, Arena

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy

Manners, Argument, Poets

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Harry Shearer

Politics, Moral, Looking

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James

Women, Bad, Him

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
Herbert Simon

Good, Technology, Bad

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Laurence Sterne

Mind, May, Read

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas Chamfort

Happy, Person, Cannot

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Billy Sunday

Women, Lies, Pay

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Billy Sunday

Education, Business, Challenge

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
Talib Kweli

Music, Making, Compromise

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
Luke Scott

Crazy, Help, Person

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
Corin Nemec

Life, Character, Real

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson

Religion, Fear, Evil

Books follow morals, and not morals books.
Theophile Gautier

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
John Burns

Morning, Before, Hands

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.
Junior Seau

Love, Work, God

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham

Happiness, Greatest, Number

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
Joseph Lancaster

Good, Great, Society

One should make morals judgements for oneself.
Kathryn Bigelow

Oneself, Judgements

I'll never go against my morals.
Leona Lewis

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.
Ashley Greene

Live, Person, Different

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Gouverneur Morris

Education, Religion, Good

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.
Demi Moore

Off, Idea, Clothes

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
Katey Sagal

Character, Struggle, Sometimes

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
Nicki Minaj

Love, Long, Values

Good morals lead to good laws.
Chuck Norris

Good, Lead, Laws

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Age, Good, Nothing

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
Tippi Hedren

Strong, Parents, Background

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.
Angie Harmon

Age, Important, Hard

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