Quotes About Morality

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

I used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, 'Keep to the budget, be responsible,' and Hyde would be like ,'Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.'

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

On 'The X Factor,' they deliberately have people on that are awful just to laugh at them.

President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.

To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.

There has been the negative impact of spot-fixing and match-fixing, but it is the individual player's responsibility to look after that because if a player wants to do that, it is difficult to stop him. It is the individual player's responsibility to play fairly.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Fairness matters.

Faith idles when character shrivels.

I cannot change the fact that divorce is wrong. It's never right. But we are all human, we are all part of a fallen world.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

I think that it's possible to have someone who is an anti-hero, who does tear hearts out and break necks, and you can still relate to him on a certain level.

I just don't believe in abortion, period. But I would never take away a woman's right to choose what's good for her body. But I still believe that when you do have an abortion, still inside, you go through a lot of stuff. It tears away at your spirit and your soul. So I don't think people think about that.

People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.