Karl Kraus Quotes

You can't slice up morals.

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

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.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.

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

A man is not good or bad for one action.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

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

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.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

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.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

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

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

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

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.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.