Quotes on “morality”

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.