Morally Quotes

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

If we say that anyone who "moralizes" must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

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

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.