Quotes About Morality

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.

No right exists without its complementary obligation.

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

The true test of a man's character is how he behaves when no one is watching.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.

I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake.

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

A benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone; a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water.

I always think that if an animal likes you, it must mean that you're not a completely wicked person.