1,889 Quotes About Morality

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Reading good books strengthens the moral fabric of society.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.