Character Quote by Georges Bataille

If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see what evil…

— Gaspar Noe

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the…

— Jean Piaget

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

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 which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

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 is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the…

— Roger Scruton

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is…

— Steven Pinker

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the…

— Annie Besant

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

— Swami Vivekananda

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 is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

— Jane Rule