Morality

Author Index

Browse authors by last name

Category Index

Browse categories by their first letter
All AuthorsAll Categories
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: It is the confession, not the priest that give us absolution. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
MORALITY: In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: 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: 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)
MORALITY: 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)
MORALITY: What is morality but immemorial custom? (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MORALITY: Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. (Unknown source)
MORALITY: When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. (Swedish proverb)
MORALITY: Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)