Quotes About Morality

Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Only what is done as duty for duty's sake ... can scatter the bondage of Karma

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

'Party Up' is like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' crossed with 'House Party.' It's basically about this kid, my character, who's this smooth, intelligent kid who's petitioning to throw this big end-of-the-year-bash house party, and so he goes and manipulating different people and ruining lives. He somewhat has a selfish heart, but he's a nice guy.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Sooner or later a man has simply got to do what he thinks is right, no matter what other people, or the courts, or his friends, or his enemies, or God himself may tell him.

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.