Quotes
Quotes about Morals
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens]
Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example, Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample; But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that "one man is as good as another;" a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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.
What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
Men represent the triumph of mind over morals, whereas women represent the triumph of matter over mind.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.
