Age Quote by Walter Lippmann

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

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do…

— John Steinbeck

Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the…

— Milton Friedman

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are…

— Barry Unsworth

“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which their impulses…

— Bertrand Russell

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

— Alfie Kohn

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

— Confucius

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some…

— Catherine Wilson

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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