Character Quote by C. S. Lewis

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher…

— Anonymous

“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are…

— C.S. Lewis

“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.”

— Aldous Huxley

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

— C. S. Lewis

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Ethics are not always ethical just as morals are not always moral.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.”

— Philippa Foot

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear,…

— Immanuel Kant

“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.”

— Gregory Maguire

“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.”

— Stephen King

“Do morals matter, if our alternative is a grim and hopeless end?”

— wildbow