Quotes About Morality

Beloved-of-the-Gods speaks thus: Father and mother should be respected and so should elders, kindness to living beings should be made strong and the truth should be spoken. In these ways, the Dhamma should be promoted. Likewise, a teacher should be honored by his pupil and proper manners should be shown towards relations. This is an ancient rule that conduces to long life. Thus should one act.

Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, has caused this Dhamma edict to be written. Here (in my domain) no living beings are to be slaughtered or offered in sacrifice. Formerly, in the kitchen of Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, hundreds of thousands of animals were killed every day to make curry. But now with the writing of this Dhamma edict only three creatures, two peacocks and a deer are killed, and the deer not always. And in time, not even these three creatures will be killed.

I wondered how all those people in the states who tried to sound tough, saying that the u.s. should go in here, bomb there, take over this, attack that, would feel if they knew that they were indirectly responsible for babies being burned to death.

I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.

To those who try to reach The throne of power Over mounds of dead bodies Of innocent children Old women Young men, I have a question: Did nothing bind them To those who died? - Power

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.

The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Religious ceremonial nowadays provides less opportunity for bad language and sexual symbolism.

A true alpha does the right thing, regardless of what his pack thinks,

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no idea of potential divinity! Decoration is its creed and vital allegory is its belief. Being the 'Free Morality,' it has no sin – then most assuredly Art is all we dare express without excuse.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.