Quotes about Ethics

Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.

When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.