Quotes About Morality

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

I think violence can never be justified.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I don't support violence, period.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.