Character Quote by Rick Rigsby

“That morality—which some people imagine is God-given and eternal—is as malleable and learned as our ideas of beauty, our enemies, our fashion trends.”

— Jo Nesbø

“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.”

— Fernando Pessoa

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in…

— Immanuel Kant

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided, made sophisticated. Within good,…

— Haruki Murakami

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

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

— Samuel Butler

At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is…

— Eric Liu

“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.”

— James W Sire

“Rather than offering a strict moral code to live by, popular culture today provides more of a moral posture.”

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

“Every institution of our day, the family, the State, our moral codes, sees in every strong, beautiful, uncompromising personality a deadly enemy; therefore every…

— Various