Quotes About Morality

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Humanity is the sin of God

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Lies are essential to humanity.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

There's not really such thing as 'good' or 'bad' people, there's just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.