Character Quote by Albert Bandura

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.…

— Albert Bandura

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

— Mary Douglas

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends.…

— George Clooney

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we…

— N.T. Wright

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not…

— David Hume

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts…

— Steven Pinker

“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which their impulses…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and…

— Allan Bloom