Quotes About Morality

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

People using a public platform to further their own personal agenda, I think that's immoral. You have no right to do that. Tony Blair is a great example of that.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.