Morality

Prisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing ducks.
William Arabin, judge

Anger is just and love is just but justice is not just.
D.H. Lawrence

In the history of the world no one has ever washed a rented car.
Harvard President, Lawrence Summers

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. Mencken

Common sense is the deposits of prejudice laid down in the mind before the age of eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Moral indignation is in most cases two per cent moral, 48 per cent indignation and 50 per cent envy.
Vittorio De Sica

We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Truth is like sunlight: people used to think it was good for you.
From King of the Hill, US cartoon

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Samuel Butler

He that shall follow truth too close at the heels – it shall happily kick out his teeth.
Thomas Hobbes

Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers.
Karl Popper to Ludwig Wittgenstein, after the latter had waved a poker in Popper’s face and demanded an example of a moral rule in a heated discussion at Cambridge

And whoever walks a mile full of false sympathy walks to the funeral of the whole human race and whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
D.H. Lawrence: reply to Jesus

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Frivolity is the privilege of the secure, or the refuge of the desperate.
Matthew d’Ancona, British journalist

‘SLUT (noun): A woman with the morals of a man’
Anon.

It’s always tempting to impute/Unlikely virtues to the cute.
P.J. O’Rourke