Ethical Values Quotes

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.