Quotes About Morality

The conscience of a people is their power.

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.