Character Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except…

— Allen W. Wood

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

— Frans de Waal

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the…

— Annie Besant

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the…

— Jean Piaget

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self above the…

— Awdhesh Singh

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated.…

— Jonathan Haidt

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

— 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

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

— Jubal

What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's…

— George F. R. Ellis

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude