Quotes About Morality

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

There's not a Christian out there who hasn't struggled with wanting to break a rule or having broken a rule over and over again.

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

I can say that in our gym, 'Toquinho' has never hurt anyone. He is a good person, excellent company and a man with a great character. I believe that he has never thought of doing anything evil to any opponent because this isn't his conduct.

One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.

I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

Just as I would not abide by a resolution ordering me to kill Salvadorans. I also cannot abide by a resolution that orders me to let them die.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?