Quotes About Morality

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.

You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they want us to labour? Where is the next place they will take us? Why do we not focus on building our own economies and societies? We need to put all hands on deck to get our economies to function at a higher level.

Character is more important than talent.

If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

to highlight the immorality of Germans abandoning their moral duty to think.

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion