Lee Cullum Quotes

You must legislate morality.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

Modern morality is all about perception.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

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

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Statutes against Fundamental Morality are void

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

You can't legislate morality.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.