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Moral Quotes by Albert Einstein
- For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
- The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
- I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,…
- The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
- Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral…
- My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the…
- It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able…
- The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
- A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during…
- Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before,…
- I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was…
- Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public…
- ... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly…
- Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...
- Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
- It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some…
- You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
- Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.…
- Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I…
- Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a…
More Moral Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use… — Theodore Bikel
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. — John Perry Barlow