You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Man of the People’.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral. – John Hurt
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. – Leon Wieseltier