#morals

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#honor #lack #morals #people #poisoned

One should make morals judgements for oneself. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#make #morals #oneself #should

Morals are private. Decency is public. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#morals #private #public

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#clear #condemn #duty #his #integrity

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent. ↗

— Victor Garber

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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter. ↗

— Victor Garber

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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#been #chiefly #credited #excellent #fate