Quotes About Morality

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything.

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.

Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.

Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme of God, freedom and happiness as the final crown of virtue which Kant propounds. Detach morality from that framework and you will no longer have morality; or, at the very least, you will have radically transformed its character.

Truth and goodness do not depend on me, Bell. I am too weak. I am as poor a thing as General Blessington. Prepare to despise both of us.

The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means

The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man