Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
The people of the United States are not morally fit to survive.
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
I do not morally judge any character and resist judging anybody in real life, too.
I think it’s morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
I was a ‘reverence for life’ man – ‘see life steadily and see it whole’ – in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly ‘saved’ by reading, at least partially ‘repaired’ by it: made the better morally and existentially.
I’ve always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don’t get to do that in real life.
Facebook, Google, YouTube, even Snapchat are clamping down on conservatives. It’s the DNC and Big Tech colluding. That is the government colluding with big business. That is not America, that’s not the West – that is Communism, and it’s morally wrong.
I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable… self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.
No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it’s sinking – financially, morally, spiritually. It’s frightening.
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.
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
I think there’s something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
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.
We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive – undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and undermining peaceful societies.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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.’
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
The challenge in confronting Trump is that there are certain things that he does that that you have to respond to, just morally. When he lies, you’ve got to correct the lie, which will keep you busy because he does it so often. When he does something wrong, you’ve got to point to it.
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I’m very lucky.
If the American people or Congress agrees with the illegal-alien lobby that deportation is morally abhorrent, the immigration laws should be changed.
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn’t bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
I will always find a defense for characters, and that’s why it’s fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you’re moral, saying you’re moral is not the same as acting morally.
Applying criminal law to the exchange of bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims would create a morally shocking result of re-victimizing a victim. All lawfully operating digital currency exchanges would thereafter refuse to exchange bitcoin for ransomware victims for fear of criminal culpability.
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.
Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they’re coming from.
My position is that you’ve got to accommodate everything. I don’t morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.
I believe that abortion is morally wrong.
As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children’s music. I couldn’t find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.
Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?
If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.
I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.
Our concerns aren’t always appropriate or morally elevated.
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.
A disciplined and morally upright nation is built by disciplined and morally upright institutions.
You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.
For a long time, I’d wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents’ reading.
Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that’s morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.
When I look at my body of work, I’ve played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted – ‘I’m right, no I’m wrong, I don’t know what to do!’ I want to play more characters who don’t care as much, and who aren’t as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
Documentary makers use other people’s lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
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.
You can’t judge a character, and you’re never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It’s always the rest of us who get broken in half.
There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
It’s not all ‘Jane Eyre’ out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she’s one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security – and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.
Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.
I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.
Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.
