Moral Decision Quotes

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's better to be that way.

The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.

Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul, either freeing it or bringing about its ruin.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine.

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.