Quotes About Morality

What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

I don't commit any crimes.

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

I don't have to commit crimes, I don't have to do anything like that to try and make money.

Christianity is part of the common law.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

It's never good to turn to comparisons with Nazis.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.

I do not condone the use of violence.

I don't condone violence, period.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

I don't need others to validate my good conduct.

I have a clear conscience.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

A clear conscience is a sure card.