Moral Imperative Quotes

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

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Intelligence work has one moral law—it is justified by results.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I'd been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

The presence in society of different, sometimes opposing political convictions and discordant interests generates political struggle which is waged by both legitimate and morally justified methods and methods sometimes contradicting the norms of public law and Christian and natural morality

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

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.