#morality

"I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog."

"A man's ethical behaviour 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."

"I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"Morality is often very immoral."

"I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."

"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)"

"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)."

"People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices"

"We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe."

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully."

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."

"Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather."

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

"A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed."