Quotes About Morality

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

Be just before you are generous.

What I desire most in my life is to become a better person. I genuinely want to be good.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.

I do glamorous photoshoots but I don't like nudity and I am against it.

I want to play good characters, not glamorous ones.

If you think it's worth selling yourself out, go for it. But I'm not selling myself out so I can make a little more money. I'm not selling my character out for that.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.

Nobody criticized the characters in 'The Godfather' for being bad examples of how to be men.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

The majority of my life is spent doing nothing but godly things, especially when it comes to dealing with other people.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.