Centre Quote by Henry Mayhew

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

— Henry Adams

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised…

— Charles Murray

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit…

— Dar Williams

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's…

— Sandra Bernhard

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

— Bill Pullman

England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply…

— Colin MacInnes

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time…

— Anonymous

Morality, when formal, devours.

— Albert Camus

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

— Henry Steele Commager

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as…

— Erik Erikson