Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Morality is a social necessity

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

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

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

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.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

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

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

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

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

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.