Quotes About Morality

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

If you sincerely want to know if you're "going too far," don't ask yourself, "Is this bad?" Instead ask yourself, "Is this pure?"

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.