Peter Milligan Quotes

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.'

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

You can't slice up morals.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

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

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

Grub first, then ethics.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

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

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

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

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.

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we're making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

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

We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

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

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

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.