Charlotte Bronte Quotes

You can't legislate morality.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

My future is righteousness.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

I'll never go against my morals.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

It's very much simpler to get rid of any written rule you choose than it is an item of customary morality... while laws are preserved on tablets of wood or stone, customary morality is engraved deep in our living souls

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.