Quotes about Morality

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

The existence of free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.