Simon Bolivar Quotes

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

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

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.