Quotes About Morality

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.