613 Quotes About Morals

If I am bending the truth because it refuses to adhere to my agenda, I must realize that in the bending the truth has forewarned me that I am not crafting an agenda at all. Rather, I am crafting the trajectory of my own demise. And even though I adamantly reject such a notion as preposterous, it is a truth that I cannot bend.

Ethics and morals are not designed to keep us from walking off the cliff. Rather, they’re designed to keep us from creating the cliffs that we walk off of.

Ethics are not the things that kill my fun. Rather, they are the things that keep me from getting killed by the things that I thought were fun.

No value system formed by man will ever manage the men who formed it.

In our society, it appears that rules give us a more specific idea of the things that we want to break so that we can break them more efficiently.

To do something that’s just a ‘little bit less’ than the right thing is to do a whole lot of the wrong thing.

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.

In a culture gone increasingly rogue, it has become apparent that our actions are designed to bypass the questions whose answers would invalidate those actions. And are we naïve enough to believe that because we bypass the questions, the questions will not eventually answer themselves at our expense?

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find life worth living, and be against rape, if it has led to your existence.