Quotes About Morals

To those who lack a conscience, there is no such thing as remorse.

People of North America: may the example of all those nations that have preceded you, and especially that of your motherland, be your guide. Beware the abundance of gold that brings about the corruption of morals and the scorn of law; beware of an unbalanced distribution of wealth that will produce a small number of opulent citizens and a horde of citizens in poverty...

Jamie] shook his head, looking stunned. "I canna tell whether ye mean to compliment my virility, Sassenach, or insult my morals, but I dinna care much for either suggestion. Murtagh told me women were unreasonable, but Jesus God!

I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.

I can earn money any time but I shouldn't lose my respect.

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

Call one a thief and he will steal": put a stigma on a calling and its followers adjust their morals to it, for it is natural that "the normal conscience," as Hugh Black says, "rises to the demands made on it, and easily falls to the limit of the standard expected from it.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.

Give any man the power of a god, and you better hope he's got the wisdom and morals of a god to match. There's nothing feeble about my moral line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I mourn every man I lose and every sacrifice I make. One life or a billion, they're all lives.

You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath.

Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of having led to loose living, everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age.

The first time you make a decision like that, a decision which rubs against all your morals, is the hardest. The second time, though, is not so hard. And that makes you feel a fraction better about the first time. And so on. But you can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

You must value four things in your life,your family, your self respect, dignity and your inner voice.

True friendship is contagious, it never stops affecting the morals of those in the positive pursuit of enduring perfection.