Morals Quotes

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.

Laurence Sterne

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Horace Mann

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

Price Pritchett

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."

H. L. Mencken

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

Henry Louis Mencken

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation

Jeremy Bentham

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.

Jason Chamberlain

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

P.J. O'Rourke

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Don Herold

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

Jane Austen

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov

Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

Daniel J. Boorstin
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