Immanuel Kant Quotes

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

There is no right in acting.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

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.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.