Quotes About Morality

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.

Morality is very important. We have to be together.

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

When the president says that the biggest problem of the country is corruption, they attack the morality of the president so that he doesn't speak about corruption.

We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last chivalrous white knights out there.

To me, morality and family is more important than anything else in life. You don't get a second chance at it. Vanity, ego and all that is not something I get to take to the grave.

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

My personal opinion is that life begins at the point of conception, and abortion is morally indefensible.

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants to make sure that the culture we're getting is at least morally aware of how it's functioning.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'