Quotes About Morality

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

I'd never hurt another person.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

I have learned to do what I want without hurting anyone. I've learned how to get away with it, with everything. I'm getting away with what I'm trying to do on film but also in my own way.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

I care about hurting other people because, well, I don't want to hurt people - well, I do sometimes, but I still don't.