#morals

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#despotic #law #morals #relaxed #versa

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#balance #bottom #civilized #else #founded

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#kingdom-of-fear #morality #wisdom #morals

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#clear #first #improve #knowledge #longer

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#blind obedience #call #command #morals #obedience

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.' ↗

— Alex Borstein

#i #morals #no point #point #say

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #bump #church #deciding #dump

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#humor #life #morals #humor

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#admirer #beautiful #beauty #big #grow