John Berger Quotes

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.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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.

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

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.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Morality is a social necessity

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

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.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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.

Fear is the mother of morality.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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.