Quotes About Morality

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

Utmost integrity is key.

We have to address the safety of women, and that is of utmost importance right now. I would love to work only with people with ethics and the right moral conduct.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.

It's one thing to fail with something you utterly believe in, but to fail with something you don't believe in? You just feel so sordid.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

Like Hollywood, Washington, and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.