Robert S. Bennett Quotes

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Morality is a social necessity

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

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

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

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

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

You can't legislate morality.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

I'll never go against my morals.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.