Quotes About Morals

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.