Jayson Blair Quotes

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

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

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

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.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

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

Our system of morals is a body of imperfect social generalizations expressed in terms of emotion.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

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.