Character Quote by George Clooney

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

— Albert Bandura

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends…

— Alex Gibney

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

— Don Herold

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated.…

— Jonathan Haidt

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist…

— Leon Blum