Quotes About Morality

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

Conscience is wiser than science.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.

A good reputation is better than great riches.