Quotes About Morality

If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.

I didn't know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while his wife was pregnant. How much does the public need to know about a performer?

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world of various points of view.

I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Whatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil.

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.