Character Quote by Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

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 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

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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 only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

— Herbert Read

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense…

— Anonymous

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 comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

— Christopher Hitchens

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