Peter Dinklage Quotes

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Some things are easier to legalize than to make legitimate.

We don't call art filth or filth art.

When the goals of science collide with moral and ethical judgment, there are certain times when science has to take a time-out.

Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.

A lot of people want to talk about me and my hazing. Yes, I did. I make no apologies about it whatsoever.

Just because something exists in the society, it doesn't mean it has to be correct.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.