Quotes About Morality

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Without God, life is everything.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.