Character Quote by David Gergen

Morality is the object of government.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing,…

— Marilyn French

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

— Matthew Arnold

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

— Horace Bushnell

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

— Harry Browne

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

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

— Jane Rule

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

— Samuel Butler

“The first word of any constitutional oath of public office by an elected politician should be morality! For only then can the foundations of…

— Alastair Agutter

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

— Henry David Thoreau