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Morals Quotes

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

Good Time Morals You Bad Want

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

Life Culture Morals America Way Out

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Politics Morals Never Interest Arena

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Morals Decency Public Private

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Ethics Morals Want Personal My Own

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Good Government Morals Result Bad

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

Good Me Morals Bad Person Never

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

Morals Manners He Methodist

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Morals Manners Argument Own Custom

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Happy Pride Morals Vanity Person

I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.

Myself Morals Bad Vegetarian Out

I have zero morals about television. I just want to be entertained.

Morals Television Want Zero Just

Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.

Grateful Appreciate Morals You Right

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Good Feel Good Morals Feel You Bad

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Eastman

Women Woman Morals Said Blood Test

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

Politics Morals Just Because May Us

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

Lauren Jauregui

History Travel Book Morals You Look

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Words Blind Morals Obedience Call

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Morals Manners Numbers Sioux Account

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Good Age Balance Morals Nothing

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

Ethics Ideas Action Morals Lose Now

There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

Stars Time Generation Morals Values

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

People Morals Philosophy Look Always

Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not infused with morals or a message, either, and kids like that.

Morals Out Being Books Kids Message

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