Jane Rule Quotes

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

Morality is a social necessity

Our system of morals is a body of imperfect social generalizations expressed in terms of emotion.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

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.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

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 novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

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

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

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

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

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.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.