Quotes About Morality

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring