The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.