Quotes About Morality

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why. He was a man who possibly did some really bad things, and he should be punished beyond a doubt. But that show, and the impact it had not just on black culture, but culture, was amazing.

In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Hank Schrader is a really good guy - and so is Dean Norris.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.

To willfully harm another human being goes against everything I believe in.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

I would never do anything that would harm me, and I am totally against using any kind of resource, illicitly, to benefit myself in any way.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.