Quotes About Morality

I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one.

You always gotta do the right thing: you never know who's watching.

You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you're doing the right thing.

I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you're a good person, you might not win short-term all the time, and financial gains might not be there all the time, but ultimately, you can be pretty happy, and you can do some pretty good things in the world. Keep a positive outlook.

In 'Maatr,' we do not justify taking the law into our hands. That's not the right thing to do. We are not promoting that.

Once your back's up against the wall and you've been beat down, you start looking at trying to do the right thing.

I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.

If I could only have one thing in life, it would be for my sons to grow up to become quality men who are interested in doing the right thing. I want them to be highly moral people who care about what is happening in the world around them. The best way to do that as a parent is to set the right example. That's what I try to do.

That's what I want to do with my life. Be a good person when all the lights are off. When everybody doesn't need to see you, shine and know that you know you did the right thing at the end of the day.

You want to try to always do the right thing and show kids the right way to live.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

If you play a game like 'Grand Theft Auto' you don't go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple characters, because you do not give them personhood.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.