Breakdown Quote by C. S. Lewis

Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of…

— Robert M. Pirsig

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What…

— Jerry Garcia

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line…

— Huston Smith

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

— Catherine Wilson

To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions…

— Tariq Ramadan

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

— Jubal

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at…

— Philip Zimbardo

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems…

— Zoltan Istvan

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not…

— David Hume

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

— Adam Savage

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the…

— Steven Pinker