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 | "A man"s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs
are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature
during his lifetime." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "A straight line is shortest in morals as well as in geometry." | |
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Unknown
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| "All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions
will have good effects." | |
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George Edward Moore
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| "I could say to you that I have done more good for my fellow man than
you can ever hope to accomplish - but I will not say it, because I do not
seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I
recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my
property or their destruction of my life. I will not say that the good of
others was the purpose of my work - my own good was my purpose, and I
despise the man who surrenders his. I could say to you that you do not
serve the public good - that nobody"s good can be achieved at the price of
human sacrifices - that when you violate the rights of one man, you have
violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed
to destruction. I could say that you that you will and can achieve nothing
but universal devastation - as any looter must, when he runs out of
victims. I could say it, but I won"t. It is not your particular policy
that I challenge, but your moral premise." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "Increase of material comforts, it may generally be laid down, does
not in any way conduce to moral growth." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "It is always easier to fight for one?s principles than to live up to
them." | |
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Alfred Adler
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| "It is often easier to fight for one?s principles than to live up to
them." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "Let"s find out what everyone is doing, and then stop everyone from
doing it." | |
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Sir A. P. Herbert
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| "Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral
jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive
killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities
and capabilities?" | |
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H.Jay Dinsah
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| "Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Morality is a private and costly luxury." | |
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Henry Brooks Adams
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| "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we
personally dislike." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain.
Thus it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the
drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards,
it would be moral to get drunk." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what"s
right." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the
greatest numbers." | |
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Francis Hutcheson
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| "The death of dogma is the birth of reality." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same." | |
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Zoltan Kodaly
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| "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he
is." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its
children." | |
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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| "The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but
morality touched by emotion." | |
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Matthew Arnold
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| "There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient
about it." | |
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Denis Diderot
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| "There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral." | |
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Walter Lippmann
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| "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life As
fear." | |
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Jawaharial Nehru
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| "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Veracity is the heart of morality." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of
its periodic fits of morality." | |
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Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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| "What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of
command." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "When the sun comes up, I have morals again." | |
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Elayne Boosler
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