Quotes About Morality

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.

People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that we do live by certain standards, that we are moral people.

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

Lady Justice doesn't have empathy for anyone. She rules strictly based upon the law, and that's really the only way that our system can function properly under the Constitution.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.

I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.

Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

I am a strong believer of karma.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.