Behavior Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to…

— Jasper T. Scott

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.”

— George Dennison

“Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....”

— Anonymous

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

— Marcel Proust

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

— Horace Bushnell

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

— Albert Bandura

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

— Barbara Branden

“morality is moral only when it is voluntary”

— Lincoln Steffens