If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.