107 Quotes About Ethics-and-moral-philosophy

Cultivate a culture of obedience; subsequently respect, order, determination, commitment and good productivity will follow.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

The passionate hear touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.

Any form of power has the potential to corrupt its possessor. So, ultimately it all comes down to individual responsibility.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable. This straitjacket psychology relates his fiction directly back to the black and white ethical world of fairy tale and fable; it is in conflict with his frequently expounded general theory of moral relativity, that good and evil are not the same thing at all times and in all places.

A secular morality teaches that what man thinks, says, and does lives after him and influences for good or ill future generations. This is a higher, nobler, and greater, incentive to righteousness than any life of personal reward or fear of punishment in a future life.