Quotes About Morality

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

I think everybody should have an interest in peace prevailing and the ridiculousness, the bestiality of war. I don't have any time for that. Anybody pulling a trigger is wrong. There is no right in war.

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's almost like a triumph. Actors seem to enjoy it more.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

At the end of the day, we always show that truth triumphs. We don't leave the movie in the middle saying, 'Great, pick whatever you want to and go out there and do something wrong'. Bollywood is not the only influence in a person's life. They are also affected by their family and friends.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.