Quotes on Morals

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.