Isaac Asimov Quotes

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Fear is the mother of morality.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

You just have to do what you know is right.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.