#morals

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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It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#blood #civilization #morals #our #position

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

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#knowledge #manners #medical #medicine #morals

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ↗

— Horace Mann

#into #manners #mature #morals #rapidly

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

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

#find #i #less #lust #many

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. ↗

— Demi Moore

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