Character Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws.…

— Ernest Renan

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

— Frans de Waal

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists…

— Horace Bushnell

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical…

— Emir Kusturica

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

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

“What is morality, then? It is subjective. It has no objective validity. A moral conduct highly valued by our fathers is now held to…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”

— Lincoln Steffens

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

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...

— Robert Green Ingersoll