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Quotes About Morality

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.
~ Lee Strobel
Only those live who do good.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
~ Lois Lowry
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
~ Lou Reed
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
~ Luke Ford
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.
~ Marjane Satrapi
The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.
~ Mark Galli
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
~ Mark Twain
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
~ Mark Twain
Abortion is the taking of a life.
~ Mary Calderone
We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
~ Mary McCarthy
I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.
~ Max Anders
Thinking evil is making evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Following the Leslie Charteris novels and the film portrayals by suave George Sanders, the radio Saint righted wrongs and aided victims of crime when the law was rendered powerless by restrictive procedure. The Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.
~ John Dunning
When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of "Bambi Ethics" or "Bambi Environmentalism." They apply human morals to nature in a superficial way, without considering the actual ethical or environmental consequences of their actions.
~ John Durant