Character Quote by Dale Jamieson

For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we…

— Michael Josephson

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense…

— Emily Maitlis

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

— Penn Jillette

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

— Richard Gere

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except…

— Allen W. Wood

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that…

— Elisee Reclus

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish…

— Confucius

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