Rush Limbaugh Quotes

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Modern morality is all about perception.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.