Quotes About Ethics

If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either mentally or physically.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.