Dennis Prager Quotes

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

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

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.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

You can't slice up morals.

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

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

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.

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

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

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

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we're making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.