Quotes about Morality

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

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

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.