Quotes About Morals

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions.

The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.

Forget the money, show me the morals.

And my mother probably never told my father, either. He was old school. Old morals. My pregnancy, my accusations of assault, the fact I was drinking—I became a disgrace to him. My father disrespected me. He was disgusted by me. He heard everyone say I was a liar, a drunk little whore who threw myself at 'JonJon' Rittenberg and the other boys,

I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

True class can be achieved at any income level, in any person, at any place. It takes creativity, strong morals, patience, and a lot of grace. Get some self respect, pull your skirt down (or pull your pants up), lift your chin up, smile, and be the best you can. Don't let people tell you who or what you are; no one can change you if you don't want to change.

A Real Woman... Believes in God, Has high moral standards, Is prayerful and strong Wants to do God's will.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Don't look at the shape -- look at the character.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel

He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.

Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.

Engels could not prevent himself from occasionally unveiling the truth of what was in his mind: "We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma what-ever...."16 In other words, Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

Hemos de permitir, pues, tan ligeramente que los niños escuchen cualesquiera mitos, forjados por el primero que llegue, y que den cabida en su espíritu a ideas generalmente opuestas a las que creemos necesario que tengan inculcadas al llegar a mayores? -No debemos permitirlo en modo alguno.

In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of verifying them.

For no government of men depends solely upon force; without some corruption of literature and morals—some appeal to the imagination of the masses—some pretence to the favour of heaven—some element of good giving power to evil, tyranny, even for a short time, cannot be maintained.

Survival, I said softly. It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.