Rowan Williams Quotes

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Conscience is better served by a myth.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

You can't slice up morals.

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

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

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

Morality is truth in full bloom.