Havelock Ellis Quotes

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

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.

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

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

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

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

Morality is a social necessity

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

You can't legislate morality.

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

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.'

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

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

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