Quotes about morality
501 quotes from 241 people
Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)
Noam Chomskyborn 1928“On Resistance”, The New York Review of Books, December 7, 1967.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Bradley1893–1981Armistice Day speech (10 November 1948, in Boston, MA), published in Omar Bradley’s Collected Writings, Volume 1 (1967: 589)Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere.
George W. Bushborn 1946Farewell Address to the Nation (15 January 2009)Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–2008The Gulag Archipelago (1973)It is very dangerous to ignore the suffering of any sentient being.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Interview in Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992, pp. 20-21.Good deeds remain good, no matter whether we know how the world was made or not.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 9: Ethical Outlook
Karl Popper1902–1994Utopia and Violence (1947)And, because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Oenone” (1832)- MMuhammad571–632Muwatta of Imam Malik, Speech, hadith 21
Anatole France1844–1924Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 1- Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Hocus Pocus (1990)
