The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiTags: animals ethics gandhi morals
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
C.S. LewisAlways do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark TwainTags: morals
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: compassion morality morals
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest HemingwayTags: morality morals wrong right right-and-wrong
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert EinsteinTags: morals
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
John Ralston SaulTags: ethics morals government
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Margaret MeadMy 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In Germany I became a freethinker and when I came to teach at an orthodox Methodist Negro school I was soon regarded with suspicion, especially when I refused to lead the students in public prayer. When I became head of a department at Atlanta, the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer. I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war. I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools.
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: questions morals evil war civilization atheist creed freethinker exploitation slavery rebel clergy germany atlanta deacon harvard orthodox orthodox-religion public-prayer public-school puritanic soviet-union ussr
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas HardyTags: humor morals stories parables
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