Alex Borstein Quotes

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Ethics are more important than laws.

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

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

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

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.