Quotes About Morality

It is not at all pleasant to kill a living thing, but if we pretend that we can continue life without killing we would be nothing but hypocrites.

I'm just telling you, Tommy. He wasn't supposed to go and do those things in the war that he had to do. People aren't supposed to murder people. And he did, and he did awful things, and awful things happened to him, and he couldn't live inside himself, Tommy. That's what I'm trying to say. Other men could do it, but he couldn't, it ruined him, and—

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat—" Now

Maybe he was annoyed by the criticism he got for the scene in Grizzly Man during which he listens to Timothy Treadwell's death over headphones: Why should he get to hear it and we don't? There was no need—the coroner had already given a play-by-play account. The voyeurs still wanted more. They wanted to hear raw mortality.

Love that can't trump intellectual integrity isn't worth the name.

Sometimes God needs a sacrifice. Sometimes the road is complicit. No life is sacrosanct.

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

You are to be men who will walk humbly with God, who will stand before Him in your God-given manhood, free from impurity, free from all contamination from the sensuality that is corrupting this age. You must be men who will despise all falsity and wickedness, who will dare to be true and brave, holding aloft the blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel.

Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Works of romance, frivolous, exciting tales, are, in hardly less degree, a curse to the reader. The author may profess to teach a moral lesson; throughout his work he may interweave religious sentiments, but often these serve only to veil the folly and worthlessness beneath.

The lessons of the Bible have a moral and religious influence on the character, as they are brought into the practical life. Timothy

As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

Your wrong habits of eating have so educated your moral powers that you have not the spirit of a Christian. Your temper is perverse, and your treatment of dumb [voiceless] animals is wrong." ~ Ellen G. White, Manuscript Releases Vol. 3, p. 306

We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.

They delighted in destroying the life of animals; and the use of flesh for food rendered them still more cruel and bloodthirsty, until they came to regard human life with astonishing indifference.

When the character is lacking in purity, when sin has become a part of the character, it has a bewitching power that is equal to the intoxicating glass of liquor.

Bad habits are more easily formed than good habits, and the bad habits are given up with more difficulty. The natural depravity of the heart accounts for this well-known fact—that it takes far less labor to demoralize the youth, to corrupt their ideas of moral and religious character, than to engraft upon their character the enduring, pure, and uncorrupted habits of righteousness and truth.

Cel mai puternic bastion al viciului din lumea noastra, nu este viata nelegiuita a pacatosilor abandonati sau a proscrisilor degenerati, ci o viata care pare virtuoasa, onorabila si nobila, dar în care este nutrit un pacat, este îngaduit un viciu... În felul acesta, geniul, talentul, simpatia si chiar faptele generoase si amabile pot deveni momeli ale lui Satana pentru a ademeni sufletele în prapastia ruinei.

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.