Moral Framework Quotes

Markets work; morals matter.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Capitalism is based on a kind of inherited moral climate.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

Where there is no God, all is permitted.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us.

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

The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, "What kind of person am I becoming?" and "What is my role in that?" and so on.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.