Moral Behavior Quotes

Moral Behavior Quote of the day

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

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 it can do, what it can't do.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.