morality Quotes

If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.