Quotes About Morality

Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

The best cinema is about ethics.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

Captain America is a matured and a balanced leader. This is something that I am not. So, that made it all the more challenging for me. 'Captain America: Civil War' is bigger, better, and the action is huge. It's a film for kids and adults, and the actual moral of the film is something I loved and believed in. So, I was very happy to voice it.

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, 'Because I can, I should protect people, and I should put bad guys away, and I should defend society.' But you're forming your own justice. There's no judge and jury here: you are it. That, in and of itself, is a very complicated way of looking at morality.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?

It's not just superheroes that make a story great.