Quotes About Morality

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

The values of life are most important.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.