Born Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of…

— Anonymous

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and…

— Denis Diderot

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound…

— Paul Bloom

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

— Paul Bloom

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

— D. H. Lawrence

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

— Swami Vivekananda

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

— Walter Lippmann

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

— Charles Darwin