Moral Norms Quotes

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

… conduct unworthy of any State calling itself civilized and free.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

Things that used to be illicit are not illicit today. Licit products of yesterday, may be illicit today.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

In the contemporary world, state is normally secular and not bound by any religious commitments. Its co-operation with the Church is limited to several areas and based on mutual non-interference into each other's affairs. However, the state is aware as a rule that earthly well-being is unthinkable without respect for certain moral norms — the norms which are also essential for the eternal salvation of man

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.