Permit criticism and proposals for institutional reform
Allow people to identify failures, criticize public bodies, and propose improvements without arbitrary retaliation.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
World Morals — a shared human inquiry
An interactive atlas of moral teachings across the world's religious and secular traditions — from ancient scriptures to modern ethics.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Moral teachings
- 610
- Religious systems
- 52
- Nonreligious systems
- 41
- Source evidence rows
- 10620
Many traditions. One invitation to understand.
Find a teaching, follow its source anchors, and explore common ground without erasing differences. Every number describes only the systems represented in this edition.
610 teachings found · Edition XXI
Place patient welfare first
Give the patient's health and well-being priority over improper financial, political, or institutional interests.
Place truth above creed and ceremony
Give moral and spiritual truth greater importance than labels, dogma, caste, status, or ritual performance.
Practice affection
Express sincere care, warmth, loyalty, and concern rather than emotional indifference or manipulation.
Practice affirmative prayer and meditation
Use disciplined prayer and meditation to align attention, intention, and action with wisdom and love.
Practice benevolence toward all people
Act with goodwill, practical kindness, and a disposition to do good beyond one's immediate group.
Practice benevolent truthfulness
Use thought and speech truthfully in ways directed toward welfare rather than cruelty, vanity, or avoidable harm.
Practice climate solidarity
Assist populations and countries facing climate harms beyond their contribution or capacity to respond.
Practice compassion
Respond to suffering with concern and constructive assistance.
Practice consultation
Seek truth through respectful collective deliberation.
Practice contentment
Cultivate sufficiency and resist compulsive acquisition.
Practice courage
Act rightly despite fear or pressure.
Practice diligence
Apply sustained attention to worthy responsibilities.
Practice equanimity
Maintain moral steadiness amid gain, loss, praise, and blame.
Practice fasting or voluntary restraint responsibly
Use disciplined abstention for moral formation without harming oneself or others.
Practice generosity
Share resources freely and responsibly.
Practice honest commerce
Use truthful claims and nonfraudulent exchange.
Practice honesty under pressure
Refuse lying, fraud, bribery, or concealment even when honesty carries personal cost.
Practice honesty, cleanliness, austerity, and mercy
Cultivate truthfulness, disciplined purity, voluntary restraint, and compassionate treatment of living beings.
Practice hospitality
Receive guests and persons in need generously.
Practice humility
Reject arrogance and remain teachable.
Practice integrity as wholeness
Align belief, speech, conduct, and relationships without compartmentalized dishonesty.
Practice integrity as wholeness
Tell the truth, keep promises, and ensure that public actions match inward convictions.
Practice integrity of speech
Use words truthfully and consistently, avoiding manipulation, evasion, and reputational harm.