Character Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Maurice Barres

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old…

— Frans de Waal

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

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice,…

— Bertrand Russell

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

— David Hume

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

— Gerald R. Ford

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

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

— Tom Stoppard

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

— Tullian Tchividjian