Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992Life: Life is to be lived forward, but understood backward.

— Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855

You can’t legislate morality.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

— Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992

The day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

— Jill Tweedie, British feminist, writer and broadcaster 1936-1993

It is the confession, not the priest that give us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to b faithless and cannot.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

A truth that’s told with bad intent – beats all the lies you can invent.

— William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

— Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

— Lord Shawcross, British lawyer, politician, and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal, 1902-2003

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

— Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965

Morality is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

— Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947

Many people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

— Logan Pearsall Smith, American-born British essayist and critic, 1865-1946

What is morality but immemorial custom?

— Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

— Unknown source

When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

— Swedish proverb

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

— Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862
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