“- Warden: God gave us violence to wage in his honor.
- Teddy Daniels: I thought God gave us moral order.
- Warden: There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?”
Ted Levine - Warden
Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels

“When the sun comes up, I have morals again.”
Liz Taylor

“I don't like films with a message at the end telling an audience, this is what you have to think. It's not up to me to have to decide for the audience.”
Yann Samuell

“People always think success in show business gives them the right to be moral political arbiters.”
Joel Schumacher

“Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.”
Blake Edwards