Quotes About Morality

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.