Quotes About Morality

Your integrity, your dignity, your honor - they aren't for sale. Not ever. Not to anyone.

why does doing the right thing feel so bad?

My great ambition was to have my chilldren moraly, physically, and mentally as perfect as possible, Rose states.

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to," said Fang.

The color of truth is gray.

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous.

I've always felt like we were the civilized ones, fighting against the ones enjoying blowing up kindergartens, taking down civilian airliners, shooting up shopping malls.

A corollary of this philosophy was that the writer did not believe in good or evil. Nor did he believe in justice. Like crime, justice was an abstract, something cooked up by men. It wasn't intrinsic to the universe. Life just was. It happened, sometimes meagerly, sometimes abundantly, sometimes in violent excess. There was no right or wrong about any of it.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone trying to act for the greater good.

Because there's a big hole in their brains where most people have a conscience.

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have abortions].…You'll go back to a position like they had where people will perhaps go to illegal places, but you have to ban it."—interview on MSNBC, March 30, 2016

You may be the only person who's rooting for the serial killer.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.

Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest.