Quotes About Morality

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

There is no justification for having an affair.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Nothing can justify war.

I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

The ends must justify the means.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

Human beings will justify anything.

Nobody sees themselves as being an evil person or doing something for a bad reason. There's always something that justifies it to themselves.

I never think the ends justify the means.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

I don't believe in karma.

I always say karma is a thing that is real.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.