Lee R. Raymond Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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.

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.

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.

Morality is a social necessity

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

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.

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

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.