Peter Singer Quotes

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

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

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

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

You can't legislate morality.

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

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

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.

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.

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.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

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.

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.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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

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

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

Conventionality is not morality.