Quotes About Morality

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

The thing about sexiness is that it's been painted as evil.

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Fighting in the name of god is the biggest paradox ever.

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

Example and general milieu, once considered so important in the nurture of children, are sacrificed on the altars of the false god we call free choice but which imprisons us all in a collective moral paralysis and delivers an anarchy that the State itself shrinks from challenging.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.