Moral Priority Quotes

God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.

The social order and its development must constantly yield to the good of the person, since the order of things must be subordinate to the order of persons and not the other way around....

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

You must do right before you feel good.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being .... We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science and economy.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

Primacy of persons over structures.

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.