Quotes About Morality

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En mi juventud bregaba por la igualdad, quería participar en el juego de los hombres, pero en la madurez comprendí que ese juego es una locura, está destruyendo el planeta y el tejido moral de la humanidad.

Psst! Father Restrepo! If that story about hell is a lie, we're all fucked, aren't we. . . .

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.

It means zero to be against greed.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

My father said, '10 minus one is zero.' It means that even if you do good things 10 times, it is no use when you do some bad thing once. But it doesn't mean that I think I have positive image, so I always need to be careful about what I'm doing. I don't want to frame myself.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by raising difficult questions most Hollywood movies shy away from, but as of this writing, it seems that one of its central themes - that torture was instrumental to tracking down bin Laden - is not supported by the facts.

Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

It makes you feel good, doing the right thing and getting in the end zone.

I've never really been able to tolerate zoos.

Right action is the key to good living.

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.