Quotes About Morality

The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.

None of us knows what a good or bad person is. In real life we're all brilliant and a bit rubbish.

We moralize among ruins.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

A person's health is not for sale, it's not for trade and it's certainly not available for blackmail.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

Listen, one doesn't need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence.

A lot of times the thoughts of religion are not all bibliocentric, sometimes they're cultural. Then it becomes cultural to say, 'it's wrong to do this and it's wrong to do that.' It becomes a misinterpretation of scripture.

I understand Sean Penn. He has every right to look for El Chapo.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.