Paul Bloom Quotes

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

All men are born good.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.