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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere
G. K. Chesterton

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov

Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.
Doris Lessing /Prisons We Choose to Live Inside/

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The highest virtue is always against the law.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces
John Irving /A Prayer for Owen Meany/

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake