Quotes About Morality

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.

There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.