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Quotes About Morality

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
~ Plato
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
~ Dennis Prager
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
~ Socrates
Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
~ Brent Weeks
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
~ Basil Hume
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
~ Ronald Reagan
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
~ Seneca the Younger
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
~ Sidney Hook
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
~ Socrates
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
~ Thucydides
It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.
~ D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.
~ Kevin Bacon
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
~ Chaim Potok
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
~ Cunningham Geikie
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
~ John Dryden