Quotes About Morality

My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

The law often allows what honor forbids.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

I didn't grow up believing that abortion was a good choice for women, but since it was legal, I thought it must be okay.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

Oklahoma's the Bible Belt.

'No Country for Old Men' was epic.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.