Quotes About Morality

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.