Quotes About Morality

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

If the American people - pro-choice and pro-life - cannot agree with the basic concept that the life of a baby born alive following a botched abortion should be protected, then when do the rights of these babies begin?

Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

When we were doing 'My Three Sons,' I appeared in the movie 'The Apartment.' I played a married businessman who kept a mistress on the side and treated her rather poorly. It was a good movie and a good role, and I thought it would be fun. But you should have seen the letters of protest I got over that.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.

We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.

So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.

black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.