Quotes About Morality

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.

In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular.

People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shouldn't pretend we're having an argument about science when we're having an argument about values.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I could watch 'There Will Be Blood' all day long, and Daniel Plainview is a terrible person - but he's still compelling to watch. That's what makes me want to engage and see what happens next.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

There's bad apples in every type of job, whether it's sports or normal day-to-day jobs.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.