Quotes About Morality

Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

I'll tell you that when an innocent person is killed, we never go about asking or inquiring whether they were Jewish or Christian or Muslim. That's not our way or creed.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

My soul is not for sale.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you'd be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, 'Oh, he's great, I love him.'

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.