Moral Boundaries Quotes

I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you." -Kev to Win

Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

Liberty begets license.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

Humanity would never tolerate it

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

Are there any limitations? Are they going to allow fornication in Times Square at high noon?

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Freedom does not mean license.

The authority of all magistrates (with however great power and sovereignty they be vested) is as it were hedged in by these two limits set by God himself, namely Piety and Charity

There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn’t found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.