Quotes About Morality

The moral sense was once explained purely by religion. Now an evolutionary account is needed.

However, being moral can include not only acts of kindness but also deeds of conformity and violence.

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.

It came to me pretty suddenly one day that parenting is a moral task," a Chicago parent starkly put it, "that the principle of being a mother of a child who is a good person is more important than how much my kids like me or how happy they are in the moment. If my kids were going to be good people, I realized that I couldn't go to them all the time if they cried or always be a fixer or problem solver, that I had to make real demands on them.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

The numbers are unclear, but contemporaries estimated abortions at one to every five or six live births in the 1850s. A Michigan Board of Health estimate in the 1880s claimed that one-third of all pregnancies ended in an abortion.

We are too willing to reap death to save a hypothetical life.

nearly fifty percent of Christian men view pornography on a regular basis, and what is worse that nearly the same percentage of Pastors also succumb to that addiction.

compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral and have a tendency to form stereotypical views of outsiders.

The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe. When a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil, there is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil that is in man.

As human beings, it's essential that we keep the future human. Even if we manage to build artificial general intelligence, its reasoning can never fully align with human values. Nonhuman perspectives are only a benefit if they inform rather than impose decision making."

Frustration filled his features. "Rose I've done a lot of bad things, most of which I can never fix or find redemption for. My only choice now, if I want to reclaim my life, is to go forward, stopping evil and doing what's right. And what is NOT right is taking a woman from another man, a man I like and respect. I'll steal cars. I'll break into houses. But there are lines I WILL not cross, no matter what I—

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

Who... who are you?' I asked at last. It was true. I had left a body in the park, but seriously, what was I supposed to do? Drag him back to my hotel and tell my bellhop my friend had had too much to drink?

Bringing children into it was just low, I decided. At least he?d left puppies out.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina

Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven't changed.

quienes se entregan a la venganza y se toman la justicia por su mano rara vez saben dónde está el límite...

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

Just because we want something doesn't mean it's right