Konrad Lorenz Quotes

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

You can't legislate morality.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.