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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? (Quote by - Liam Neeson)

Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt)

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. (Quote by - William J. Durant)

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

Matters change and morals change; men remain. (Quote by - John Galsworthy)

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous. (Quote by - Herrick Johnson)

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. (Quote by - Feoude)

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality. (Quote by - Sila-Prabhrita)

A world without morals is chaos. (Quote by - Raul Strempsky)

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. (Quote by - Lord Shawcross)

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. (Quote by - Basil Hume)

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. (Quote by - Terry Hands)

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals! (Quote by - Cicero)

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits. (Quote by - Pope Leo XIII)

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. (Quote by - Aristotle)

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. (Quote by - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt)

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. (Quote by - William James)

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