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Quotes About Morality

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no social life outside of Christendom.
~ William H. Seward
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
~ Winston Churchill
If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
~ Leo Tolstoy
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
~ Neal Shusterman, Everlost
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
~ William Kennedy, Roscoe
The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
~ Rachel Cohn, Beta
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
~ Rashida Jones
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.
~ Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?
~ Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
~ Alain de Botton
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.
~ Bentley Little
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
~ Ayn Rand
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
~ Ayn Rand
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.
~ Dennis Prager