Quotes About Morality

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

Never lie under any circumstances.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.