Quotes About Morality

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

N?ks laiks, kad cilv?ki vairs nesm?n?s, kad vi?i saprat?s, ka rad?t?js gan nodevis dz?vnieku pasauli m?su ž?last?bai, bet ne m?su patva?ai: ka dz?vniekiem ir t?das pašas ties?bas uz dz?vi k? mums un ka m?su ties?bas laup?t vi?iem dz?v?bu ir stingri turamas m?su pašaizsardz?bas un eksistences ties?bu robež?s.

Ateis laikas, kai žmogus nebejaus malonumo žudydamas. Bet kol dar taip n?ra, žmogus negali vadintis civilizuotu, jis papras?iausias barbaras, tr?kstamoji grandis tarp laukini? jo prot?vi?, kurie žudydavo kits kit? akmeniniais kirvukais d?l žalios m?sos gabalo, ir ateities žmogaus.

Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

I said, "Allah wouldn't test us on whether we condemn somebody who became pregnant outside of marriage; He would test us on our hospitality and charity.

It's not something shared with society, but rather its a personal possession. I've never thought that I wanted to share morality with someone. I feel it's like a white canvas on which nothing is yet drawn, a silent room which accepts any sounds of music and nature, a litmus paper that has not yet been dipped into a solution. In future, it will be a white canvas on which anyone should be allowed to draw anything.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The path the Buddha taught and is explaining to Po??hap›da in this sutta has to be followed step by step. First comes morality, then guarding the sense-doors, mindfulness and clear comprehension, contentment, letting go of the hindrances, and — only after these — the first meditative absorption.

He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.

As members of the same species, human beings broadly share notions and precepts of morality, of what is socially regarded as a proper conduct. But again, there is no reason to think that these notions and precepts should fully converge and cohere between different people and different communities, or even in the minds of the individuals themselves.

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

It is the goal of law to protect the vulnerable against the predator and the exploiter, but the law cannot eradicate evil from the human heart.

An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty