Morals Quotes

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Integrity is everything to me.

Markets work; morals matter.

Politics have no relation to morals.

No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. If it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.

A budget is a moral document.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.

We shall never be able to think rationally about our own survival until we have the courage to say, in our own minds: We are Americans, White men of the West. This is our country because we took it from the Indians. And we have an unquestionable right to this country so long as we have the power and will to defend it.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

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.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

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.

In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.