Morals quotes

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

“Here's a question. Was it morally wrong for me to exploit my knowledge of the future for personal financial gain? Perhaps. Here's another question. Do I give a fuck?”
Rob Corddry - Lou

“I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it.”

Martin Sheen - Carl Fox

“- Bill: Okay, a little ethics. You are walking down the street. You find a suitcase full of money. There's nobody around. No human person is in evidence. What do you do? A You keep the money. B You use it to buy gifts for your friends and your loved ones. C You give it to the poor. D You turn it into the police.
- Kim: That is really stupid.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Arkin - Bill
Winona Ryder - Kim
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Robert Oliveri - Kevin

- Elle: I have dubious morals, you know.
- Lui: What do you call "having dubious morals"?
- Elle: Being dubious about other people's morals.
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle
Eiji Okada - Lui

“- Lucien Cordier: I can't read the aviator's book. It's too well-written.
- Anne: You like sounding illiterate? You're not. So why?
- Lucien Cordier: Habit. Grammar gets rusty like everything else if you don't use it. And in Africa the same goes for good and evil. What's good? What's evil? - Nobody knows. It's not much use here. So it gets rusty...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Irène Skobline - Anne - la nouvelle institutrice

“When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Hoover

“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”
Norma Shearer

“- 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

“- Joey Naylor: Do I have flexible morals?
- Nick Naylor: Let's say you became a lawyer and you were asked to defend a murderer worse than that, a child murderer now, the law states that every person deserves a fair trial, would you defend him?
- Joey Naylor: I don't know, I guess every person deserves a fair defense.
- Nick Naylor: So do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“- Macleane: I have morals.
- Plunkett: Oh, do you?
- Macleane: Most certainly, yes I do.”
Jonny Lee Miller - Macleane
Robert Carlyle - Plunkett

“- Dr. Margo Hunt: Dr. Kurtz, I'm unfamiliar with the academic guidelines at Radcliffe, but I would think any major university would consider warring on the United States and eating prisoners of war a serious breach of ethics.
- Dr. Kurtz: Always the cautious scholar, huh, Dr. Hunt?”
Shannon Tweed - Dr. Margo Hunt
Adrienne Barbeau - Dr. Kurtz

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

“Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.”
Walter Lang

“I don't think anyone wants to go to the cinema and get preached at. ”
James McTeigue

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

“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

Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and "trust" in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a "contract", in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a "moral and ethical principal" is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future,... (continue)(continue reading)

Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance

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

“A man with no ethics is a free man. I don't envy you that.”
Nick Nolte - Jake McKenna

- Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Stop prying into things that don't concern you.
- Lt. Janet "Davy" Davidson: Maybe it does concern me. It concerns me that the morale of this group remains high. Until you joined up, it was. You're just a troublemaker.
Veronica Lake - Lt. Olivia D'Arcy
Claudette Colbert - Lt. Janet "Davy" Davidson

“- Dave Novotny: I don't need a lecture on ethics.
- Jim McAllister: I'm not talking about ethics, I'm talking about morals.
- Dave Novotny: What's the difference?”

Mark Harelik - Dave Novotny
Matthew Broderick - Jim McAllister

“- David Murphy: I guess there's limits to what money can buy.
- John Gage: Not many.
- Diana Murphy: Well, some things aren't for sale.
- John Gage: Such as?
- Diana Murphy: You can't buy people.”
Woody Harrelson - David Murphy
Robert Redford - John Gage
Demi Moore - Diana Murphy

“- Jack Byrnes: Greg, a man reaches a certain age when he realizes what's truly important. Do you know what that is?
- Greg Focker: Love… friendship... enjoying the moment... living... just love.
- Jack Byrnes: His legacy.
- Greg Focker: That, too. Right, yeah. Sure.”
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker

“- Professor Henry Higgins: You mean to say you'd sell your daughter for fifty pounds?
- Colonel Hugh Pickering: Have you no morals, man?
- Alfred P. Doolittle: Nah. Nah, can't afford 'em, guv'nor. Neither could you, if you was as poor as me.”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Colonel Hugh Pickering
Stanley Holloway - Alfred P. Doolittle