Ethical Beliefs Quotes

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.

To willfully harm another human being goes against everything I believe in.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.