My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.
I'll never go against my morals.
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
I think I'm more grounded, you know, and I know what I want out of life and I'm, you know, my morals are really, you know, strong and I have major beliefs about certain things and I think that has helped me, you know, from being, you know, coming from a really small town.
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.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
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.
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics and anti-theology dismayed him. His 'monadology' which said that the true atoms of nature were unextended 'living mirrors,' was an imaginative and beautiful system, and even in many ways more modern than Epicurean atomism, than Epicurean atomism, but there was a reactionary aspect to it.
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order, and to impress them with respect for. lawful authority. Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God.
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
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.
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!