Quotes About Morality

If you want to be trusted, trust first. Make decisions that are grounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.

The integrity of the upright provides guiding principles that help him to achieve his vision. Hard work without integrity will lead to struggles and frustration

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference for the good over the bad. I think it's important to design our education and our schools around that insight, to bring out the best in our kids.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.