Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
So, I think thatÃs the centerpiece of morality: DonÃt lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. You know, itÃs easy to say, ìIÃll never tell a lie.î But if you say, ìIÃm going to speak the truth,î youÃre going to have to work damn hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing is just plain, old, simple kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for other people. I think thatÃs another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those that depend on you directly.
George McGovern
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness
Immanuel Kant
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness.
Jonathan Edwards
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Albert Schweitzer
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
Oliver Goldsmith