Morality Quotes - Page 30

• Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Practice

  Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books

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• Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Kindness, Generosity

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• Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.

  Morris Mandel

  Tomorrow

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• The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of divine laws. If you're not under that protection, you can get caught up into anything.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Done, Fads

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Motivational, Religion, Atheism

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• The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Religion, Tragedy

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• Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Teacher, Father

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

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• As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  God, Spiritual, Future

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• Morality begins at the point of a gun.

  Mao Zedong

  Adversity, Gun

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• "This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Doe, Answers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.320, e-artnow

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• There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Character, Men

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• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Relationship, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Civilization, Firsts

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• We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

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• Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of man's moral constitution - with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to you; do ye to them likewise"; and this lies at the foundation of morality.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Men, Intellectual

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, part I, chap. IV, 1871.

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• According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Character

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Catholic, Good Man

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• The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Catholic, Half, Vices

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• Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Sacred, Telling The Truth

  In the Illustrated London News, 24 February 1906.

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• Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Scandal, Sin

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• All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, Men, Water

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