Quotes About Morality

A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.

If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god's favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity.

Holy fear is to shun evil.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.