Character Quote by David Hume

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

— Annie Dillard

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

— Woodrow Wilson

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

— Louis Menand

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

— Marc Maron

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

— Marjorie Fleming

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

— J. D. Vance

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants…

— Wesley Morris

“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought”

— Robert Pirsig

“It is no longer a mere critique of taste in the sense that taste is the object of critical judgment by an observer. It…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action…

— Ayn Rand