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Quotes About Morals

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
~ C. A. Bartol
How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your own filthy social excrement, possessed of vomitous morals. You kill each other with unnatural impunity, preying upon the weal and helpless... not from necessity, but for gain. Name one other species that maims and destroys to gain glittering trinkets that will not fill one's belly.
~ Camille Anthony
Good stories teach!
~ Camron Wright
Pickering: Have you no morals, man?Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Why don't you just leave? Leave and live your life the way you want to. You're free to make your own choices." "No," he said. "Freedom is an illusion. We are bound by restraints on every turn. Family, clan, religion, morals, duties; all those are restraints. For someone on the crossroads of worlds, you're naive." "If you can't have your freedom, then what's the point of all this?" "Give
~ Ilona Andrews
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
~ Immanuel Kant
True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.
~ Immanuel Kant
the doctrine of morals is an autonomy of practical reason, while the doctrine of virtue is at the same time an autocracy of practical reason.
~ Immanuel Kant
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
~ Iris Murdoch
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!
~ Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.
~ Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
Tales without end are told of these massive, lonely figures who bore half-seriously, half-mockingly a motto adopted from one of Salvor Hardin's epigrams, "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!
~ Isaac Asimov
Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
I have zero morals about television. I just want to be entertained.
~ Hunx
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue.
~ Francis Bacon
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
~ Bible
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
~ Jeremy Bentham
The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.
~ Ana Kasparian
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
~ Jake LaMotta
We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
~ Paul Prudhomme
During a 2015 meeting with representatives of those countries, a European Union official dismissed their claims with the words, "We cannot correct history. What happened, happened." One wishes he'd read Améry: "What happened, happened. This sentence is just as true as it is hostile to morals.
~ Susan Neiman
I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.
~ Dave East
I'm a girl from the South, so I was raised with morals - you know, your family's first.
~ Adrienne C. Moore