Quotes About Morality

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In films like 'The Ice Storm' and 'The Crucible' and 'Nixon,' that's the sort of the persona that emerged.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.