Quotes About Morality

Jack stopped cold. Where had THAT come from? From your conscience, a niggling little voice - probably his conscience - told him. Damn. He really needed to get a better night's sleep. His conscience was never this loud.

I beat no one who did not deserve it

No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.

I didn't like taking money from individuals.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

The abortion industry is interested in nothing but the bottom line.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

We have to teach goodness to our infants.

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.