Quotes About Morality

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.