Quotes About Morality

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

I don't like hitting people in the face.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magneto's case it was violence begets violence. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way.

This is a beautiful country, the best country, but it's not holy, it's not righteous.

As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.

I think there are many honest businessmen.

The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.

I don't believe in honesty at all costs.

All is lost save honor.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.