Quotes About Morality

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic. And this, of course, only inflames the narcissism of the ineffectual.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

It is insufficient to say that my experience as a bully haunts me. Rather, my experience as a bully has been fundamental to the creation of my conscience, because it is what prevents me from making the basic human claim that I am a good person.