Quotes About Morality

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.