Morals Quotes

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, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian.

~ Arthur E. Bostwick

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.

~ Byrd Baggett

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I believe and what I don’t believe. Silence is not respect; it is not condemning brutality and cruelty, and neglecting your own existence as human being. I will be killed and so many others because of standing against the fallacy and misleading notion of religions. They will torture us and cut us in pieces alive and even won’t stop disrespecting our death bodies; that is how these monsters have been governing for hundreds thousands of years.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our values are not common sense, but biblically based.

~ Karla Perry

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.

~ Immanuel Kant

The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

~ John Ralston Saul

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

~ Helen Prejean

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

~ William Golding

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

~ C.s. Lewis

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.

~ Abigail Landsbrook

If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of “health” imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

~ Mark Greif

The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!

~ Avra Amar Filion

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

~ Thomas Hardy

The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care.

~ Charisse Montgomery

Today, I encourage you to consider your life, your values, and your relationships and consider who you are by the test of what you do. I invite you to re-affirm the values you hold dear and decide today to stand up for what you believe is right and good in the world.

~ Genevieve Gerard

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.

~ David Foster Wallace

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

~ Anne Brontë

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal, in a green costume he's a hero who gets a parade and a pension. So that, as a culture, we remain in a state of moral insanity. To point out these contradictions to people in society is to be labeled insane. This is how insane society remains, that anybody who points out logical opposites in the most essential human topic of ethics, is considered to be insane.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it may be, will answer, “What becomes of myself if all that I love in my heart and my spirit must die, that my life may be saved?” And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.

~ George Zebrowski

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

~ Aesop

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.

~ Jessa Crispin

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals

~ Sunday Adelaja

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

~ Ayn Rand

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

All that is gold does not glitter...

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

~ G.k. Chesterton

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

~ Salley Farquharson

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

~ M.f. Moonzajer