In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I’m good. I elevate myself. I call it the ‘Star Wars morality’. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell. – Joshua Oppenheimer
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. – Kenzaburo Oe
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. – Maria Montessori
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure. – Max Weber
‘Power Play’ is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and – not incidentally – wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that. – M. J. Rose
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world – and there clearly are – then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality. – Sam Harris
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors – ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply. – Sam Harris
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. – Robert Reich
One of the most important things liberals don’t understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism’s various ‘wings,’ is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where ‘traditional morality’ serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa. – Rick Perlstein
Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. – Oscar Isaac
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. – Sam Harris
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. – Remy de Gourmont
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn’t. – Ronald Frame
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men’s hearts and minds. – Robert Kennedy
If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it. – Roger Penrose
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. – Octavio Paz
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. – Patricia Meyer Spacks
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. – Roland Allen