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Quotes About Morals

I think we should all wince when we hear a small child being labelled as belonging to some particular religion or another. Small children are too young to decide their views on the origins of the cosmos, or life and of morals. The very sound of the phrase 'Christian child' or 'Muslim child' should grate like fingernails on a blackboard.
~ Richard Dawkins
I think we should all wince when we hear a small child being labelled as belonging to some particular religion or another. Small children are too young to decide their views on the origins of the cosmos, of life and of morals. The very sound of the phrase Christian child or Muslim child should grate like fingernails on a blackboard.
~ Richard Dawkins
we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
~ Richard Dawkins
Whenever a controversy arises over sexual or reproductive morals, you can bet that religious leaders from several different faith groups will be prominently represented on influential committees, or on panel discussions on radio or television.
~ Richard Dawkins
No man's religion ever survives his morals.
~ Robert South
Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
~ Vance Havner
My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.
~ Joss Whedon
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
~ Confucius
Men and times change-but principles-never.
~ Grover Cleveland
In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
~ Horace Greeley
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
~ John Galsworthy
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.
~ Daniel Webster
Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.
~ George Washington
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man is a man without high morals and ethics.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
~ Harry S. Truman
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
~ Ihara Saikaku
The history of a man is in his character.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
~ William Rosenberg
When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.
~ Anthony Joshua