Quotes About Morality

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there's a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we're seeing goes against what people always believed in.

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

Nowhere in the Beatitudes did Jesus say, 'Blessed are the queue-jumpers,' trying to gain an advantage at the expense of others. This is what the people at Calais are.

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.

It is my moral obligation to vote for Biden because I do not believe that Trump is a decent person and I believe in my heart that Biden is.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.