Quotes About Morality

The compulsion to reconsider the past through the ideals and beliefs of the present is constant and overwhelming. It allows for a sense of moral clarity and feels more enlightened. But it's actually just easier than trying to understand how things felt when they originally occurred.

Most episodes of Seinfeld circuitously forward two worldviews: The first is that most people are bad (and not very smart). The ­second is that caring about other people is absurd (and not very practical). It is the most villainous sitcom ever made, particularly since its massive audience never seemed to fully grasp what it was literally seeing.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Find good in what the world says is evil.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.

In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.

No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned.

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

In the movie where somebody is invisible all the sudden—you know, a nuclear radiation fluke or a mad scientist recipe—and you think, what would I do if I was invisible...? Like go into the guy's locker room at Gold's Gym or, better yet, the Oakland Raiders' locker room. Stuff like that. Scope things out. Go to Tiffany's and shoplift diamond tiaras and stuff.

The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.

Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.

Peo­ple are look­ing for how to put ev­ery­thing to­geth­er. They need a uni­fied field the­ory that com­bines glam­our and ho­li­ness, fash­ion and spir­itu­al­ity. Peo­ple need to rec­on­cile be­ing good and be­ing good-?look­ing.

All humans search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad.

In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil?

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?