Morality quotes

“Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.”
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“- Aaron: They allow us to have cameras at an execution in Florida. Do you broadcast tape of the guy in the chair when they turn on the voltage?
- Martin Klein: Sure.
- Jennifer Mack: Why not?
- Ernie Merriman: Absolutely.
- Aaron: Nothing like wrestling with a moral dilemma, is there?”
Albert Brooks - Aaron Altman
Robert Katims - Martin Klein
Lois Chiles - Jennifer Mack
Robert Prosky - Ernie Merriman

“- Roger Rabbit: Okay, nobody move! All right, you weasels, grab some sky or I let the judge have it. You heard me, I said drop it!
- Jessica Rabbit: Roger, darling!
- Roger Rabbit: That's right, my dear. I'd love to embrace you, but first, I have to satisfy my sense of moral outrage.”
Charles Fleischer - Roger Rabbit
Kathleen Turner - Jessica Rabbit

“I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell. Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics.”
Jon Polito - Johnny Caspar

“The killer grows a conscience. I'd say that's a breach of professional ethics.”
Tony Goldwyn - Dean

“- Mac MacIntyre: Where's the door here?
- Gordon Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
- Mac MacIntyre: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
- Victor: The ethics are just the same.”
Peter Riegert - Mac
Denis Lawson - Urquhart

“- Slartibartfast: I'd much rather be happy than right, any day.
- Arthur Dent: And are you?
- Slartibartfast: No. That's where it all breaks down, of course.”
Richard Vernon - Slartibartfast
Simon Jones - Arthur Dent

“Colonel, your moral compass is so fucked up, I'll be shocked if you manage to find your way back to the parking lot.”
Brian Markinson - Attorney General Russert

“I must say, I find these new young people wonderfully refreshing, they have no morals and they never speak. It's an enchanting combination.”

Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- Jack Moore: Why are you doing this?
- Shen Yuelin: I am doing this because I do not wish to be silent any more.”

Richard Tiffany Gere - Jack Moore
Bai Ling - Shen Yuelin

“Politics. Where greed wears the mask of morality.”
Steve Martin - Clouseau

“- Linda Greenlaw: There you go. Flaunting your work ethic.
- Captain Billy Tyne: I don't have a work ethic. I just have work.”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Linda Greenlaw
George Clooney - Captain Billy Tyne

“Circumstances have taught me that a man's ethics are the only possession he will take beyond the grave.”
Morgan Freeman - Hibble

“- Kitty Pryde: Einstein said that ethics are an exclusive human concern, without any superhuman authority behind it.
- Charles Xavier: Einstein wasn't a mutant, so far as we know.”
Ellen Page - Kitty Pryde
Sir Patrick Stewart - Charles Xavier

“- Doctor Martha Livingston: The Catholic Church doesn't have a corner on morality.
- Mother Miriam Ruth: Who said anything about the Catholic Church?
- Doctor Martha Livingston: You just did.
- Mother Miriam Ruth: What the hell does the Catholic Church got to do with you?
- Doctor Martha Livingston: Nothing.
- Mother Miriam Ruth: What have we...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Seymour Fonda - Doctor Martha Livingston
Anne Bancroft - Mother Miriam Ruth

“I love the fact that the captain of the morality team invites his chick to the same party as his wife.”
Kieran Culkin - Igby

“- Kevin: I just want to say it was horrible what those kids did. And the whole incident points up a fundamental moral breakdown in our society.
- Mr. Burkewaite: Thank you, Kevin, for your insightful self-righteous indignation.”
Richard Richcreek - Kevin
Jim Metzler - Mr. Burkewaite

“Let us pretend that we are in the drawing room and the hostess is serving tea. Now many numerous little questions confront us. Should the man rise when he accepts his cup of tea? May lump sugar be taken with the fingers? No. Is it good form to accept a second cup? Should the napkin be entirely unfolded or should the centre crease be allowed to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Vincent Price - The Inventor

“They say you think morals are pictures on walls and scruples is money in Russia.”

Julia Ormond - Sabrina Fairchild

“Guilt is petit-bourgeois crap. An artist creates his own moral universe.”
Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender

“- Walsh: Does that mean he wants you to prove your own client is guilty of murder?
- Jake Gittes: Yeah.
- Walsh: Well, is that ethical?
- Jake Gittes: Larry, he's a lawyer.”
Joe Mantell - Walsh
Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“There's an absolute morality? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, go ahead, be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don't think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won't live in it. That's me.”
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma

“What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation, real morality lies in following one's own heart.”
Embeth Davidtz - Portia Charney

“If she's morally unfit, then we have every right to do anything we can to get her out of this town.”

Edie McClurg - Chastity Pariah

“We are scientists not moralists!”
Steven Keats - Dr. Philip Spires