1,889 Quotes About Morality

The true aim of upbringing is not to change a man directly [...] but to incite an inner stream of experiences and to cause an inner decision to the benefit of good by means of example, advice, sight, or the like.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.

If people cannot rise to the level of applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others they have no right to talk about right and wrong.

You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?""The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the bodypolitic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life.The civilian does not.

Gleichzeitig wird die Illusion erzeugt, mit der Einhaltung der Compliance-Regeln sei auch eine gute Unternehmenaufsicht gewährleistet. Moralisch erwünschtes Verhalten lässt sich gerade nicht durch Vorschriften erreichen. Regeln stärken Regeltreue. Aber sie schwächen den moralischen Kompass, sie schwächen das Gefühl für Akzeptanz, sie Schwächen die Verantwortung — Verantwortung, die sich naturgemäß auf das Ungeregelte bezieht.