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Quotes About Morality

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
~ Annie Dillard
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
~ Anthony Burgess
I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
~ Brian Andreas
One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.
~ Bruce Montague
I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.
~ Gemma Arterton
I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.
~ Howard Schultz
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
~ Iris Murdoch
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
~ Robert Kennedy
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
~ Salman Rushdie
Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
~ Thomas a Kempis
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
~ Tony Abbott
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor
~ Mother Teresa
Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
~ Nora Roberts
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
~ Paulo Coelho
To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
~ Peter Singer
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
~ Richard G. Scott
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
~ Cesare Pavese
The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
~ Confucius
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
~ Cyril Connolly
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
~ Elvis Presley
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
~ Albert Schweitzer