Able Quote by Judith Martin

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

— Judith Martin

Morals are private. Decency is public.

— Rita Mae Brown

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

— Charles Bukowski

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

— Mohanlal

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not…

— Aldous Huxley

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

— Henry Adams

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and…

— Allan Bloom

If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing…

— David Hume

“We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time…

— J Budziszewski

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not…

— Anonymous