Quotes About Morality

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, dharma has various connotations, but generally it means cheerfully fulfilling your moral and ethical duty. Doing the right thing.

You want to protect the innocent. Let me tell you, God isn't just in the rabbits. He's also in the foxes. So your little act of kindness deprived God of a meal.

Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.

remember that a person might do bad things ut that that didn't mean they were a bad person

Humanomics doesn't give up on science. On the contrary, it yields the best scientific explanation of how we got rich, 1800 to the present, and how the whole world soon will, and it gives us, too, a reason to be good.

That businesspeople buy low and sell high in a particularly alert and advantageous way does not make them bad unless all trading is bad, unless when you yourself shop prudently you are bad, unless any tall poppy needs to be cut down, unless we wish to run our ethical lives on the sin of envy.

Commerce works better than theft.

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Virtue is praised, but hated. People run from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you have to keep your feet warm.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.