Quotes about Morality
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Behind the cross stands the devil.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
In its death throes, we see religion clinging to morality, whose mother it would like to pretend to be. In vain! — genuine morality is dependent on no religion, although religion sanctions and thereby sustains it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer