Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Francis Wright

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

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

One should make morals judgements for oneself.
Kathryn Bigelow

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
John Cheever

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
Thomas Cochrane

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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Victor Garber

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
Victor Garber

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
Perry Como

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

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.
Noel Coward

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Arthur Wellesley

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Jimmy Swaggart

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

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
Bille August