Quotes About Morality

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron.

Character is the container for blessing.

Evil often thrives in the absence of an authentic righteous standard.

Abstinence is a perversion.

The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

[On surveillance of Americans] We're not just changing how we live, we're changing human nature itself. . . . When everything is recorded, there isn't any right and wrong for its own sake. It's just caught and uncaught.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?

God's will is the right thing to do in all situations.

I said before that the human game we've been playing has no rules and no end, but it does come with two logical imperatives. The first is to keep it going, and the second is to keep it human.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.

Human life was worth little.