Morals Quotes
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus -
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
Aristotle -
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
Oscar Wilde -
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde -
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Oscar Wilde -
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
Victor Garber -
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike -
It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
Oscar Wilde -
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
Vince Staples -
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
J. G. Stedman -
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
Oscar Wilde
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Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
James Cook -
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
Aristotle -
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 -
I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
Victoria Aveyard -
One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
Yuri Andropov -
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.
Rachel Caine