Character Quote by Thomas Sowell

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit…

— Peter Joseph

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

— Emile Durkheim

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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