Josef Albers Quotes

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

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

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

You can't legislate morality.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

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

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

Morality is a social necessity

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

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.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.