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Quotes About Morality

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
~ Max Lerner
The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Plato
I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.
~ Nadya Suleman
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life
~ Nhat Hanh
No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.
~ Paulo Coelho
I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.
~ Penn Jillette
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
~ Pierre Corneille
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
~ Randall Terry
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
~ Rick Renzi
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
~ Saint Basil
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
~ Samuel Johnson
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
~ St. Jerome
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
~ Ted Malloch
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
~ Thomas Fuller
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.
~ Tony Evans
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
~ Dalai Lama