Quotes About Morality

Ahlakla ilgili olarak, büyük çapta, kiÅŸinin bu terimden ne anlad???na baÄŸl?d?r. Bana göre, önemli erdemler iyi yüreklilik ve zekâd?r. Her türlü inanç zekây? köstekler; günah ve ceza inanc? da iyi yürekliliÄŸi engeller.

Plato's Socrates had argued that to inflict injustice was a greater evil to the perpetrator than to suffer it.

It is held that no woman can have a good moral influence unless she is or pretends to be indifferent to the male sex.

Greek history is peculiar in the fact that, except in Sparta, the influence of tradition was extraordinarily weak in Greece; moreover there was almost no political morality.

One of the persistant delusions of mankind is that some sections of the human race are morally better or worse than others. This belief has many different forms, none of which has any rational basis.

The idealizing of the victim is useful for a time: if virtue is the greatest of goods, and if subjection makes people virtuous, it is kind to refuse them power, since it would destroy their virtue.

The primary motive of sexual ethics as they have existed in Western civilisation since pre-Christian times has been to secure that degree of female virtue without which the patriarchal family becomes impossible, since paternity is uncertain.

The less rational a man is, the oftener he will fail to perceive how what injures others also injures him, because hatred or envy will blind him. Therefore, although I do not pretend that enlightened self-interest is the highest morality, I do maintain that, if it became common, it would make the world an immeasurably better place than it is.

To preach an altruistic morality appears to me somewhat useless, because it will appeal only to those who already have altruistic desires. But to preach rationality is somewhat different, since rationality helps us to realize our own desires on the whole, whatever they may be.

Is there a way of living that is noble and another that is base, or are all ways of living merely futile?

Santayana....reasoned that the young men who were being killed in the war would die anyhow sooner or later, and would be good for nothing while they lived.

He is thus led, in practice, to regarding absence of pain, rather than presence of pleasure, as the wise man's goal.VI

Because work is a duty, and a man should not receive wages in proportion to what he has produced, but in proportion to his virtue as exemplified by his industry.

Human nature is still, to a very great extent, regarded irrationally because it is pleasant to regard people as objects of praise and blame.

Me temo que se está acabando la época de la gente bien; dos cosas la matan: la primera es la creencia de que no hay peligro en ser feliz con tal que no se haga daño a nadie; la segunda es la aversión a la farsa, aversión tanto estética como moral.

The principle that we ought to obey God rather than man has been interpreted by Christians in two different ways. God's commands may be conveyed to the individual conscience either directly, or indirectly through the medium of the Church.

Consequently I shall not insist that a Christian must believe in hell.

There is a certain tendency in our practical age to consider that it does not much matter whether religious teaching is true or not, since the important question is whether it is useful.

Most people in civilized communities do not steal, and I think the usual motive is the great likelihood of punishment here on earth. This is borne out by the fact that in a mining camp during a gold rush, or in any such disorderly community, almost everybody steals.

I find among many people at the present day an indifference to truth which I cannot but think extremely dangerous.  When people argue, for example, in defense of Christianity, they do not, like Thomas Aquinas, give reasons for supposing that there is a God and that He has expressed His will in the Scriptures.  They argue instead that, if people think this, they will act better than if they do not.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step towards the diminution of war, every step towards better treatment of the coloured races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organised Churches of the world.

Io non credo che la scienza per sé sia fonte adeguata di felicità, né credo che la mia mentalità scientifica abbia contribuito granché alla mia propria felicità. La scienza di per se stessa mi sembra neutra, essa, cioè, accresce il potere degli uomini per il bene come per il male. Una valutazione dello scopo della vita è cosa che va aggiunta alla scienza se si vuole che essa rechi felicità

the Puritans did not succeed in subduing the purely corporeal part of our human nature, since what they took away from sex they added to gluttony

Tanr?bilimin kötü yan?, y?k?c? eÄŸilimler yaratmak deÄŸil, böyle davran??lara yüksek bir töre süsü vermek, bilgisiz, barbar çaÄŸlardan kalma al??kanl?klara aç?kça kutsal bir özellik tan?mak olmuÅŸtur.