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Quotes About Morality

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~ Donald E. Westlake
When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value.
~ Donald Hamilton
My job is defending the people and to hell with the laws. Your job is defending the laws and to hell with the people.
~ Donald Hamilton
Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.
~ Donald L. Hicks
If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
~ Donald L. Hicks
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~ Ayn Rand
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
~ Solon
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
~ Horace Greeley
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
~ Pope John Paul II
We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
~ Leonard F. Peltier
I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.
~ Hideo Kojima
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
~ Dorothy Day
I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.
~ Samuel L. Jackson
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
~ Richard Attenborough
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
~ John Robbins
The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.
~ Marco Rubio
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
~ Jo Nesbø, The Snowman