Quotes About Morals

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Freud, however, asserts that ethics and morals come from human need and experience. The idea of a universal moral law as proposed by philosophers is "in conflict with reason." He writes that "ethics are not based on a moral world order but on the inescapable exigencies of human cohabitation." In other words, our moral code comes from what humans find to be useful and expedient.

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.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

For me, my father was a pastor, and my parents are still together. They raised me, you know, to be respectful.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

I'm the good guy, I'm a family guy.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

Each individual represents the whole course of Evolution and he is not, as morals teach, something that begins at his birth.

In all willing it is absolutely a question of commanding and obeying, on the basis, as already said, of a social structure composed of many "souls," on which account a philosopher should claim the right to include willing-as-such within the sphere of morals—regarded as the doctrine of the relations of supremacy under which the phenomenon of "life" manifests itself.

Let us face facts: the people have triumphed — or the slaves, the mob, the herd or what ever you like to call them ... Masters have been abolished; the morals of the common man have triumphed... Mankind's 'redemption' (namely from its masters) is well under way; everything is becoming visibly Judified or Christified or mobified (what do words matter!). To arrest this poison's progress throughout the body of mankind seems impossible...

Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult

Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet become conscious of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions.

while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature according to the Stoa, and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism!

I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is going to bake children in an oven, or the bear is going to eat the girl for eating the porridge. There are lessons in there, but they're deeply engrained and hidden.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

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

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

I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.