Quotes About Morality

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you

People with no human values are worse than zombies.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think the same way. But in our time we were not left to ourselves as they are. All of us believed in some kind of god. We believed in a scholar or in scholarship itself; we believed that right actually exists. All that kind of thing has been swept away, and philosophy, religion and morality must be created anew, from the ground up.

Then they all surrounded the poop little animal and pulled out all his fur. He cried out loudly and entreated them to spare him, but with each tuft of fur they pulled out they said: "Serve you right!

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

El deber y el crimen jamás pueden coincidir en una misma cosa.

Alçak gönüllülük erdem, gurursa kusurdur. "Biz" tanr?dan, "Ben" ÅŸeytandan gelir.

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.

All their Immanuel Kants together couldn't do it! It didn't enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of scientific ethics, that is, ethics based on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

To kill one individual, that is, to subtract fifty years to the total sum of human lives, was criminal. But to subtract fifty million years was not considered criminal. Really, isn't that absurd?

Hükümet (veya insanl?k) idam cezas?na izin vermiyor ama milyonlarca kiÅŸinin her gün yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ öldürülmesine göz yumuyor. Bir insan? öldürmek -yani yaÅŸam?ndan 50 y?l almak- suç ama tüm insanlar?n yaÅŸamlar?ndan 50.000.000 y?l? çekip almak suç deÄŸil!