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When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.
— James Laver
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
— William Cobbett
I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
— Victoria Aveyard
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.
— Georgette Heyer
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
— Henry David Thoreau
What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.
— Ava Zavora
The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
— Sunday Adelaja
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
— Steven Seagal
The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
[ ... ] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [ ... ] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them
— Marilyn Manson
Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.
— Junior Seau
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
— William Gurnall
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.
— Cybill Shepherd
Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals ...
— Sarah Gorham
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
— John Steinbeck
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
— Thomas Hardy
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
— George Takei
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
— Arthur Wellesley
The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
— Catherynne M Valente
An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.
— Anton Chekhov
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
— Robert Noyce
I follow suit, said the lion,
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag. — Margaret Atwood
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag. — Margaret Atwood
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
— George R R Martin
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
— John Cheever
Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.
— Joan Lowery Nixon
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
— Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
— Thomas Hardy
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
— Manu Joseph
We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles.
— Alexandria Ruffian
Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn't alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.
— Avra Amar Filion
He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.
— Patricia Briggs
Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
— Byrd Baggett
Morals and lights are our first necessities.
— Simon Bolivar
A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.
— Steven J. Carroll
The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.
— Brandon Sanderson
Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
— Stieg Larsson
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
— Jeremy Bentham
Religion works only if it teaches love and morals.
— Brenda Kay Winters
Judging from what I've seen so far
He's filthy rich
with a filthy mouth
And even filthier morals — J.C. Reed
He's filthy rich
with a filthy mouth
And even filthier morals — J.C. Reed
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
— Alexander Hamilton
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
— Anton Chekhov
We do not need a new moral order; the world desperately needs the tried and tested moral order that God handed down at Sinai.
— Billy Graham
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.
— Gouverneur Morris
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
— Susan B. Anthony
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
— Thomas Cochrane
What is moral is what you feel good after.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
— Peter Stuyvesant
Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals.
— G.K. Chesterton
The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
We quarreled in the gray morning dew about morals; and made up over a red bathing suit.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
The best companion and helper is admirable morals.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.
— Walter Lippmann
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
— Mark Twain
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
— Daniel Webster
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
— Horace Mann
Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ...
— Steven J. Carroll
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.
— Henry David Thoreau
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
— Denis Diderot
I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
— Alexandre Dumas
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
— Gouverneur Morris
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
— Theophile Gautier