Quotes About Morality

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.

Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Make sure that your children don't follow you if you go to sin.

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

'Better Call Saul' gets surprisingly dark.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

If a man can be corrupted by a few books, I doubt if there was anything there to begin with.

I believe it is entirely possible for a man to possess not a single one of the virtues, to be a demon in human flesh.

You know what? I think if you were on fire right now, if you suddenly burst into flame this minute, I wouldn't throw a bucket of water on you.

You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.