Emir Kusturica Quotes

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

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

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

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

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

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

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

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

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.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.

The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!