Accepting Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.”

— Oscar Wilde

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

— Nina Bawden

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

— Jonah Hill

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

— Rachel Cusk

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

“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”

— Kakuzō Okakura

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

— Samuel Butler

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't…

— Debbie Harry

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

— Armstrong Williams

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

— Brian Dennehy