Albert Einstein Moral Quotations

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.