Quote Quote

Expanding our class discussion...
7 quotes about morality from influential people:

1.    A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a throughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

2. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy

3. Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain

4. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi

5. 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.
C.S. Lewis

6. About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

7.  Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
Thomas Jefferson

Some quotes are similar ideas that people said about morality in the class. Whose idea is the one you like the most or can you agree with?
After we discussed in the class, and I look up these quotes, I think morality is not easy topic to make people to agree with one idea but interesting to hear what other think about how they determine right or wrong.




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