Character Quote by James Anthony Froude

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.…

— Walter Lippmann

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon…

— E. Stanley Jones

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

— Norm MacDonald

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line…

— Huston Smith

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've…

— George Saunders

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— Don DeLillo

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

— Havelock Ellis

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this…

— Austin Osman, Spare

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

— Oscar Wilde