Quotes about Morality

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Evil is the absence of God.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character