Morals Quotes

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

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

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

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

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Sometimes we punish our selves the most.

Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.

New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code.

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.

The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.

What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

All that is gold does not glitter...

The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.