Quotes About Morality

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.

You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things

A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.