Quotes About Morality

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

Abortion is not a right. It is a violent act against the defenseless. It violates every principle of morality and should be barred by American law. Until that day, I fully support bans on partial-birth abortion, third-trimester abortion, and indeed every limit that can receive public support.

I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

It doesn't feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we're living in - it's like a world upside down, right?

Is there a more violent book than the Bible?

Bonanza' was never a violent show, yet it is set in an era when men wore guns and violence was a fact of life.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

Virtually everyone agrees that the marriage of a 13-year-old child is unconscionable.