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Quotes About Morality

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.
~ Dean Ornish
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.
~ Michael O'Brien
It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.
~ Patty Jenkins
I have always been against the gangster as hero.
~ Ruby Dee
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.
~ John Barrowman
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
~ Alexandra Petri
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
~ Park Chan-wook
I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
~ James Garner
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
~ Graham Greene
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
~ Philip Kerr
I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.
~ Graham Moore
A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
~ Irvine Welsh
I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.
~ James McBride
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
~ Charlaine Harris
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
~ Jean Baudrillard
Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.
~ Leigh Michaels
Heroism in a bad cause.
~ Karel Reisz
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
~ Bari Weiss
I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works for me.
~ Bill Ward
It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school.
~ Mia Kirshner
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
~ Stokely Carmichael