Character Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Modern morality is all about perception.

— Rachel Cusk

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation…

— Ellen Key

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

— Paul Bert

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

— Swami Vivekananda

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business…

— E. W. Howe

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and…

— Sam Harris

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe