If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.