Quotes About Morality

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

Abortion is in violation of God-given life.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

What is left when honor is lost?

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.