Character Quote by Jasper T. Scott

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

— Herbert Read

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and,…

— David G. McAfee

“Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society,…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral…

— Timothy J. Keller

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff