Quotes About Morality

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

I read the collected works of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and made a list of everything the old Baptist preacher had ever condemned as immoral or untoward. The subjects of his condemnation ranged from college-age women going braless to dogs wearing clothes to Beyonce.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

It's regrettable that some people have to make a substantial living at others' expense.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

there is a fundamental messiness to the nature of the good.

People commit fraud both in and out of businesses, and the evidence shows they are just as dishonest outside of a business context as within it.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

Always aim for right and avoid doing wrong at all costs.

Question: Is it Tyron or Tryon Edwards? There seems to be a discrepancy. What is meant by ill-desert or is this a typo?

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

il ne suffit pas de prendre en soi-même une décision pour acquérir la dignité ; il faut que cette décision soit suivie d'un acte qui en découle, et qui soit perceptible par les autres (même s'ils ne sont pas là pour le percevoir). Telle serait donc notre première définition de la dignité.