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Books follow morals, and not morals books.


Theophile Gautier

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MARK TWAIN Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACON Stealing is wrong Billy
DAVID CHUKA Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. ...
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TINA BROWN Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
MANU JOSEPH Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.
ANONYMOUS high standards, high morals and success.
ZYGI WILF For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which a...
WILLIAM JAMES Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
PATTI SMITH It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take ser...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
MARK TWAIN Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
ANDREW YOUNG Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and kn...
SILA-PRABHRITA Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
VITTORIO DE SICA The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they wil...
CECIL J. SHARPE In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. Th...
LIAM NEESON Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, ...
BASIL HUME However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves...
TERRY HANDS Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILLIAM J. DURANT The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, p...
ARISTOTLE When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
ELAYNE BOOSLER Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
C A BARTOL If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them a...
H. L. MENCKEN Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; ...
KARL KRAUS I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is...
ROBERT COLES The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
RICK SHUMAN A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not ...
JOAN DIDION One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate ...
STERNE I always win on a solid moral ground , when people deceive me or conspire against me
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should foll...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE اغلب مردم برای این اخلاقی هستند که هرگز در موقعیت وسوسه...
آرتور آسا برگر Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
HORACE MANN Matters change and morals change; men remain
JOHN GALSWORTHY Ethics are not always ethical just as morals are not always moral.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Bad company ruins good morals.
BIBLE Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
ART SPANDER The Big Book of Easy Suppers
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EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'
CLIFFORD LONGLEY A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society
JUANITA KIDD STOUT Morals are private. Decency is public.
RITA MAE BROWN Politics have no relation to morals.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Customs, morals--is there a difference?
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I make up my own morals.
JACOB PELTON no shame, no humanity, no morals and no principles.
PRINCE ABDULLAH Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the fo...
KARL KRAUS If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they ...
ROBERT STEVENSON One should make morals judgements for oneself.
KATHRYN BIGELOW I think my morals are perfectly... tight!
ESSIE DAVIS The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
HONORE DE BALZAC The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST If the books are selling, the money will follow.
LARRY KIRSHBAUM People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring ...
C.S. LEWIS Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation an...
AMISH TRIPATHI A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
LEO TOLSTOY Trying to see the better side of people makes you the better person.
J.J. BOWLERS Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almos...
DAVID LEVITHAN People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self...
TANA FRENCH The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a p...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE Follow the books &live a limited life,but follow imagination & live the unlimited life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE The higher the building the lower the morals.
NOEL COWARD Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
NOEL COWARD Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
AMBROSIUS MACROBIUS The higher the buildings, the lower the morals
NOEL COWARD To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON ARTHUR WELLESLEY He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits
POPE LEO XIII The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.
EYDEN I. A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.
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AMBROSE BIERCE I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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