Quotes About Morality

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

I've always been really turned off by a show where you're kind of just rooting for someone regardless of the stupid things that they do, or regardless of how their ego is clearly driving what they're doing.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

Regardless of any thing that I've done that people might think, 'Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,' that's not how it works.

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I have cheated. But I don't regret it because we were not serious. I wouldn't have ever done it if I were serious about the girl.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.