Character Quote by Ambrose Bierce

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for…

— Albert Bandura

“We have an idea of what is right or wrong. And we can debate moral issues as ideas. But moral *standards* are not ideas;…

— Karl Marlantes

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer

“... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us.…

— Noam Chomsky

Morality, when formal, devours.

— Albert Camus

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

— Brad Warner

“Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty The state of being whole, entire, or undiminished”

— Doug Moran

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

— Norm MacDonald

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche