Walter Lippmann Quotes

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

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

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

You can't slice up morals.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.