Morally Quotes

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

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.

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.

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.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.