Quotes About Morality

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did not place the institution at the top of their moral hierarchy, complaining that married couples cared more about pleasing each other than doing the Lord's work.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

I try to write from a point of view with my faith being always present and always there. don't want to write characters where everyone is saved. So this Madea character for me is not saved.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.

At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.

We're constantly rationalizing where we stand and our own code and dealing with, you know, how you can be the best version of yourself.