Quotes About Morality

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.

The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK.