Wesley Morris Quotes

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

What intellectuals have done is that they've brought to the surface important problems that face society, that are on the subconscious of culture, of society. They've provided societies with insights, with concepts, with perspectives that allowed people and communities to make sense of the world.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

Moderation in the pursuit of truth is no virtue. Vigilance in the defense of public ethics is no vice.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.