Quotes About Morality

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

I don't know how all of my friends vote; it doesn't come up. But it would be a lie to say that I don't surround myself with people who have a similar moral code to mine.

The older I got, I started to realize more it's not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good; you just kind of carve your own way, and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

It's killing for fun or profit I can't stand. There's a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.