Moral Instinct Quotes
- For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly… — Thomas Jefferson
- There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy… — Robert A. Heinlein