Character Quote by Thomas Sowell

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

— Thomas Sowell

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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 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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the…

— Steven Pinker