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Quotes About Morality

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
~ Matisyahu
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.
~ Pitirim Sorokin
Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.
~ Christian Morgenstern
Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.
~ Ralph Nader
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.
~ Immanuel Kant
The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.
~ Charles Sumner
People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
~ Roxane Gay
The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.
~ Marilyn Manson
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~ Edmund Burke
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
~ Debbie Harry
I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.
~ Eddie Izzard
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
~ Immanuel Kant
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
~ Matthew Modine
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
~ Alveda King
Humanity is the equity of the heart.
~ Confucius
We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
~ Patton Oswalt
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
~ Albert Schweitzer
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
~ Rick Yancey