Quotes About Morality

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

I don't persuade to suicide.

I can't forget the scene in 'My Night at Maud's' when the very pious engineer in the business suit decides to sit on Maud's bed while she is lying under the covers with only a T-shirt on, determined to seduce him.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

When you're talking to potential professional athletes, I really like to talk about the fact that even though you're a great athlete, that doesn't make you a good person. And if you can build that foundation first, everything else usually follows suit.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.