Quotes About Morality

Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.

I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think, 'Oh, I am a good guy. These other people are bad guys. They're dumb, I am smart.'

I've always had this sense of justice - I get that from my mom, for sure. When you see stuff that's wrong, it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Greatness is accomplishing the unrequired - doing what is right beyond what is expected.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.