An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
—George Bernard Shaw
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
—James A. Froude
Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
—John Ruskin
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.
—Noel Coward
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
—Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
—Oscar Wilde
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
—Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
—Sallust
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
—Scott Adams
Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
—Thomas Jefferson
I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
—Voltaire
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
—Unknown
It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy,… or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit.
—Abbie Hoffman
Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty.
—Michel Foucault