Quotes About Morals

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

After all, they were Yankees and no one expected anything better from Yankees. So their unthinking insults to her state, her people and their morals, glanced off and never struck deep enough to cause her more than a well-concealed sneer until an incident occurred which made her sick with rage and showed her, if she needed any showing, how wide was the gap between North and South and how utterly impossible it was to bridge it.

morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.

But there were those photographs, and the world was full of Mrs. Grundy. He might have to back up a little bit on the incompetence of the Junior E, but Mrs. Grundy would be behind him a hundred per cent on the morals issue—when he released some of the photographs, and titillated her nasty imagination by reference to others too indecent to release.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

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

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

What a society honors will be cultivated.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.

LIFE IS GOVERNED BY CERTAIN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE!

If you don't believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

Stories are Life's instruction manuals.

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.