Quotes About Morality

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

I think we have reached the point where we can state definitively, that Nazis are bad people.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.