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Quotes About Morality

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die
~ Maggie Stiefvater
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.
~ Martin Luther
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
~ Mary McCarthy
Women are the guardians of morality.
~ Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.
~ Mitt Romney
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
~ Moby
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
~ Ovid
Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.
~ Reese Witherspoon
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
~ Samuel Richardson
Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.
~ Steig Larsson
There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
When they go low, we go high.
~ Michelle Obama
It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.
~ Victor Hugo
Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Chasing a person doesn't give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.
~ Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
~ Angela Carter
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser
~ Tim Willocks, The Religion
And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.
~ Michelle Franklin