Morality quotes

“I'm vacating this switchlized adolescent display of hedenistic amorality.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Leah Jones

“How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“Don't clutter up a clever scheme with morality.”
Dennis Quaid - Bowen

“- Charles: Ethically you're still bound...
- William Porter: Fuck ethics!
- Charles: My, my, my, William. I do believe that is the first time I've ever heard you swear.”
James O'Sullivan - Charles Brady
Jim Metzler - William Porter

“I'm one of the underserving poor, that's what I am. Now, think what that means to a man. It means he's up against middle-class morality for all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: you're undeserving, so you can't have it.”
Stanley Holloway - Alfred P. Doolittle

“Here's a tough ethical one. Would you tell a source that you loved them? Just to get some information?”
Robert Katims - Martin Klein

“Lydia's becoming more and more demanding and you feel bad because Helen's working night and day to keep the money coming in. But you've asked Helen to come on a research trip to Dorset with you, knowing that she wouldn't be able to... to cover up the fact that you're really taking Lydia. And despite the fact that Lydia gave you an out on the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Douglas McFerran - Russell

“- Marty: Davis, if I take that in there and Moseby starts carrying on about how brilliant it is... I'm going to take the credit.
- Newton Davis: What? You're my friend, where are your ethics?
- Marty: My ethics are that I know this about myself, so I'm not going to take this in there and screw you over.”
Peter MacNicol - Marty
Steve Martin - Davis

“If you want to question my morals... do it later.”
Matthew Fox - Brooder

“Mutant ethics arise when discussing which of two rights is for a greater good. For instance, would it be wise to transfer the mind of a dying father, into a comatose patient? The answer to this question is the core of mutant ethics...”
Olivia Williams - Dr. Moira MacTaggart

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

Jeff Goldblum - Malcolm

“The Institute's code of honor is a simple one. A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate those who do. It is a simple code, but it is a stern code. There are no second chances here. One is either an honorable man or one is not! And the Institute does not forgive. Make no mistake, gentlemen. Life here is hard. But the Institute's unique...” (continue)(continue reading)
G.D. Spradlin - Gen. Bentley Durrell

“We have things those computers can never have, like instincts and feelings and moral judgment. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.”
Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“- Howard Langston: I gotta tell you, Santa, there's something about this place that doesn't seem quite... Kosher.
- Mall Santa: Kosher? This coming from a guy who assaulted a toddler for a super ball?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Howard Langston
Jim Belushi - Mall Santa

“Films with a message just make me laugh.”
Claude Chabrol

“I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.”
Martin McDonagh

“I like the idea you can have the entertainment and the political idea in there.”
James McTeigue

“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

“If a thief takes your money and you take it back, does that make you also a thief?”
Robert Carlyle - Adolf Hitler

Strangers... I hate this. Do they want to share what they got or take what you got? Do you say "hi" or do you blow them away?
Kevin Costner - The Postman

“- Dad: Where do you get your values? From that stinking heavy metal music you listen to day and night?
- Joe: Yeah, that's it, man. It's all the music! You know everything is just fine until we just listen to a couple of heavy metal albums. Then we get all fucked up!”
David Groh - Dad
Michael Kopelow - Joe

“Embrace your moral hypocrisy.”
Kieran Culkin - Igby

“You brought me a truck full of risks. Moral risks, legal risks, dollar, fiscal, economic. Help me, I'm stuck, my Freudian skirt is showing.”
Joe Pantoliano - Arnie

“In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - James Stevens

“This is my town. Okay? I'm the sheriff here. I'll tell you what stands. Not the other way around. Now please get out of my building.”

Michael Bowen - Sheriff Stan Watkins