Asghar Farhadi Quotes

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

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

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

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

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

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

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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

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

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.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

There are no moral victories.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

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.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

I think evil is very relative.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

Modern morality is all about perception.