Character Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.”

— G.K. Chesterton

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

— Lafcadio Hearn

We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.

— Nigel Hawthorne

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

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

— Oscar Wilde

“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as greed, hatred,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Today society is more worried about your ideals then morals.

— Jeremy Limn

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must…

— Havelock Ellis