Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Quotes

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

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

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

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

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.

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

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

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

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

You can't legislate morality.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.