Quotes About Morality

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

I believe in the right to life.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.