Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“a process of self-deception to satisfy and summarily persuade yourself of righteousness. What one among us has any excuse but self-love? We… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image