Brian Aldiss Quotes

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

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

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

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

You can't legislate morality.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Morality is a social necessity

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.

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.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.