Quotes About Morality

Never, ever do the easy wrong instead of the harder right.

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

The money is important in life, but the money is not everything. I don't want to sell myself for money. I don't want to sell my reputation for money.

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will do nothing but bad things, a deeper kind of sadness sets in, almost at the level of resignation.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.