613 Quotes About Morals

Manners before morals!

In short, she (Seraphina) had luck and judgment, but no morals.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Ամեն մի քաղաքացի պետք է ընտելանա մահն արհամարհելու մտքին և չպետք է ստրկանա ապրելու բնաղդին. բարոյական սկզբունքները այնքան ուժեղ պետք է լինեն, որ հարկավոր դեպքում ճնշեն բնազդական մղումները:

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.” 

Hence he did not confuse manners with morals.

...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoughts. . . .Often I see a beautiful face and clothes, so beautiful that my head gets giddy with rapture; but as for the soul and thoughts,my God! In a beautiful outside there’s sometimes hidden such a black soul that no whitening can rub it off...

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals are in ruins. -- City of God, Book 1, argument #34 on The Overthrow of Rome