There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
I'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals. . . she has NEXT written on her knickers.
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
My morals are important to me.
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.
While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned. . . The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of. . . it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason--The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior. '
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.
I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
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.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.