Arthur Darvill Quotes

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

Civilization depends on morality.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

I can't even kill a lobster without saying a Hail Mary for it.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

It is not right to glory in the slain

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.