Quotes About Morality

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad characters that have one redeeming quality.

When a show starts out, you're immediately trying to identify your goodies and baddies, and trying to place people in your mind where you think they belong.

There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well, where the scales of justice are balanced, then that's something that I do really love to see in the world.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

I feel like, there's no fair in fighting: you do whatever it takes to win. Obviously, sometimes I cheat to win, but it's not illegal.

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

Being considered a dirtbag is not illegal.

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.