Universal Morality Quotes

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

A slur upon the moral government of the world

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Good and evil exists everywhere.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts), and he should be brought before war crimes trials.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.