Asghar Farhadi Quotes

Fear is the mother of morality.

Modern morality is all about perception.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

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.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

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.

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

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

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

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?

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.