Quotes About Morality

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you'll need religion.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?