It was always the view of my parents,” Emily said, “that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

Not that I haven’t leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It’s sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

My ‘morals’ were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a ‘believer’ in orthodox religion, but had strong...

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long – that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form,...

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should...

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for...

We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must know that we cannot expect fair play.That is, perhaps, most crucial of all....

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won’t hurt you.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by...

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

Integrity – one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same.

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense...

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity...

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe – and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every...

In Book III, which deals with morals, I have also passed over some things but for a different reason. Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War, I have had a...

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others’ kindnesses.

Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress. Don’t fall for it, my dear.

Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it … if they corrupt the morals of the people, spread a taste for luxury, effeminacy,...

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with...

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

Customs, morals–is there a difference?

This is my life,” Mandy declared, smiling sincerely. Alecto just looked concerned and very doubtful as the rain drizzled down the roads and sidewalks, towards the harbour where it fell into the ocean, indistinguishable from...

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.’ It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature… books that distinctly commend what is wrong,...

It is through justification of one’s actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of...

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of...

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.