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Quotes About Morality

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren
~ Kathryn Lasky
As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.
~ James E. Faust
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
~ Charles Macklin
In action is the worst action of human beings!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.
~ Mike Klepper
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
~ Jean Paul
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury
~ John Mills
The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom
~ Sunday Adelaja
It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
~ Marty Rubin
Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.
~ Sunday Adelaja
We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.
~ Kathryn Lasky, To Be a King
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
~ Robert E. Lee
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
~ R. C. Sproul
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
~ John Rawls
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
~ Bono
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
~ Plato
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
~ Horace
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
~ Bertha von Suttner
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
~ Charles Bukowski
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.
~ John Oliver
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.
~ James Laver