Character Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.”

— Dean Koontz

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

— George Washington

“if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they’ll choose life every time.”

— Jeffery Hudson

“As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.”

— Marcel Proust

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“This is the joyous destiny of our people—to bury the arc of the moral universe so deep in justice that it will never be…

— Carolina De Robertis

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness…

— Immanuel Kant

“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system…

— William Golding

“Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress”

— Michel Faber