Quotes About Morality

I think we live in a quite an immoral society with quite an amoral government and they're going to have to grow up in that and negotiate their own way in it.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Fame is morally neutral.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Was it smart to be in a Nazi newspaper? I have no idea. Probably not.

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

A struggle in my life is to feel like I'm a good person and to feel like I'm a nice person. I try to be and anytime I fall short of that it feels really bad.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

People who don't believe in God are no happier than people who do, and those who do believe are no nicer than those who don't.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.