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Morals And Quotes

[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- Mark Twain

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
- Bille August

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
- Anita Baker

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
- Jeremy Bentham

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
- Carl Sandburg

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
- John Burns

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.
- Timothy F Cahill

Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church..
- Douglas Coupland

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
- Christopher Dawson

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
- Denis Diderot

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
- Charles Alexander Eastman

I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be used as weapons, possibly against other Americans. I don't get it. Were you hiding behind a door on morals and ethics day?...You couldn't mother someone if they shot five gallons of estrogen into your veins.
- James Patterson

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
- George R R Martin

Books follow morals, and not morals books.
- Theophile Gautier

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
- Thomas Hardy

Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.
- Georgette Heyer

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 laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
- Zoltan Kodaly

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
- James Larkin

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
- Gerald F Lieberman

Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever fractured. Their morals and ethics are never cut off from the whole of their evolving beings.
- Donald Van De Mark

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
- Rick Perry

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
- Luke Scott

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
- Michael Shermer

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.
- Andy Stern

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
- Laurence Sterne

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
- Francis Wright

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