Chuck D Quotes

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.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

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

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.