There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom....

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is...

I stress character, character, character.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

There are people in positions of power that are righteous about what they believe: they're enacting out evil principles, but they don't believe that that's what they're doing.

I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers....

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of...

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that...

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

I like the feeling that I'm on the right side of history.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

I'm a firm believer in not leaving people out to dry.

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

There was always something odd about Jimmy Savile, you knew that.

I don't attack innocent people.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.