Quotes About Morality

I'm pro-life. I believe in life at conception.

I'm 100% pro-life.

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

I am pro-life and always have been.

Don't be righteous and a liar at the same time - I have a problem with that.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

I kept having the producers of 'Fog in August' take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don't want audiences to look at this doctor and say, 'He is a Nazi monster' and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

War is a profane thing.

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.