Quotes About Morality

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.