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Quotes About Morality

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
~ Plato
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
~ Thomas de Quincey
To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.
~ John Woolman
Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do
~ Chetan Bhagat
Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
~ Emo Philips
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
~ Tim Kaine
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
~ Albert Schweitzer
What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
~ Barbara Gittings
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity
~ Charles R. Swindoll
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
~ Immanuel Kant
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.
~ John C. Maxwell
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
~ George R. R. Martin
The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.
~ Mildred Fay Jefferson
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
~ Confucius
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
~ Tertullian
Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.
~ Luci Swindoll
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
~ Hans Kung
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
~ Plutarch
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead