Quotes About Universal Morality

#1. As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown ...

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#2. It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Sam Harris

#3. Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#4. My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Michael Shermer

#5. If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

Octavius Winslow

#6. To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.

Auberon Herbert

#7. The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

Steve Toltz

#8. The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...

Mary Lasswell

#10. It is fun to be present at the coming true of a dream, even if it is not one's own.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

Criss Jami

#12. For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Robert Kocharian

#13. An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

Richard Russo

#14. That which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Hume

#15. Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#16. We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?

K.d. Lang

#17. Morality is societal, but kindness is universal. Be kind even if it not always ethical.

Debasish Mridha

#18. All decisions we've come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

John-Talmage Mathis

#19. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

#20. The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Sam Harris