Quotes About Morality

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Effective action is always unjust.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.