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Quotes About Morality

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
~ Chanakya
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
~ Thomas Keating
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
~ Toni Morrison
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.
~ W. H. Auden
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
~ Paul Tillich
Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
~ R. Lee Ermey
If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
~ Confucius
Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.
~ Dennis Green
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
~ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.
~ Joe Lieberman
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
~ Albert Einstein
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
~ Albert Einstein
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
~ Alistair Begg
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~ Allan Bloom
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
~ Anthony Powell
Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.
~ Barbara Cartland
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
~ Michael Drayton
The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.
~ Mike Pence
There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
~ Mother Teresa