Elaine May Quotes

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Morals, not Art or Literature.

My shows are basically about ethics.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Law alone cannot make men see right.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.

I've got a moral center.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Good morals lead to good laws.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'