Quotes about Morality

The realization that all religions had at least one common commandment: "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.

A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.