Quotes about Morality

For boundless compassion for all living beings is the firmest and most certain guarantee of moral good conduct and requires no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will certainly injure no one, infringe on no one, do no one harm, rather, forbear everyone, forgive everyone, help everyone as much as he can, and all his actions will carry the imprint of justice and loving kindness.

these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.

What we do to the animals is perhaps their hell

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

You want to do it? I might. If you offer me enough. Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul... That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. 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?

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.