America Quote by Charles Murray

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

— John Maynard Keynes

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

— John Maynard Keynes

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

— Jonathan Sacks

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We…

— Charlie Munger

We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are permanently entrapped…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Utilitarianism: If we Britiash were Utilitarians we would have to believe that imprisoning the innocent and torturing suspects was justified if the Home Secretary…

— William Donaldson

A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of…

— Gertrude Atherton

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their…

— Robertson Davies

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the…

— Madame de Stael

We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody…

— David C. Driskell

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just…

— Edward Snowden

Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some…

— Charles Kennedy