Morality Quotes - Page 26

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as a true morality. Unlike many other relativists, I do not hold that people are subject to a morality because they all belong to a certain group. That is, I don't hold that being a member of a group makes one's subject to some set of generally accepted norms. What is true is that others around us teach us morality and moral language, so they inevitably influence us.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.