Morals quotes

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◆ Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

- Mark Twain100

◆ A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

- Louis Sachar99

◆ If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

- Confucius99

◆ The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

- Amish Tripathi99

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

- John Ralston Saul99

◆ Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

- Manu Joseph99

◆ The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

- John Granger99

◆ Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

- Paul Newman99

◆ 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 man from the cruelty of humankind.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

- Donita K. Paul99