Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

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.

I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

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.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

I think evil is very relative.

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

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

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

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

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

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

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.