Quotes about Morality
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
- George W. Bush
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
- David O. McKay
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
- Albert Schweitzer
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
- CS Lewis
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
- Peter Kreeft
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
- St. Augustine
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
- Epicurus
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
- Frederick Buechner