Quotes about Morality
How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.
— Anne Frank
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
— Anne Lamott
Everyone, from almost every tradition, agrees on five things. Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3: Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4: It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5: It is immoral to hit first. [pp.313-314]
— Anne Lamott
My true religion is kindness. That is a great moral position - practicing kindness, keeping one's heart open in the presence of suffering.
— Anne Lamott
Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.
— Anne Lamott
The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.
— David O. McKay
As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
— Desmond Tutu
God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.
— Michael Heiser
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
— Peter Kreeft
Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
— Publilius Syrus
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.
— Ronald Reagan
What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
— Shane Claiborne